babble

Etymology
From, from , also , from , , variants of , from , from , perhaps a reduplication of 🇨🇬, or a variant of , or a merger of the two, possibly ultimately /mimicry of infantile sounds (compare , ).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Unrelated to.

Verb

 * 1)  To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
 * 2)  To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
 * 3)  To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
 * 4) * 2022, Slipknot, The Dying Song (Time To Sing)
 * Radical rather than rhetorical, babble like an oracle
 * 1)  To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
 * 2)  To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
 * 3)  To reveal; to give away (a secret).
 * 1)  To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
 * 2)  To reveal; to give away (a secret).
 * 1)  To reveal; to give away (a secret).
 * 1)  To reveal; to give away (a secret).

Translations

 * Asturian: afalucar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: pludre,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θρυλέω
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: babla, masa, þvæla,, blaðra
 * Ingrian: bälättää
 * Italian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: blaterō
 * Latvian: murmināt
 * Maori: nanunanu, whakahāhā, kohe
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: brblať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, галама́гати
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Danish: vrøvle, bavle
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φλυαρέω
 * Italian:
 * Latin: blaterō
 * Latvian: vāvuļot
 * Lithuanian: babaliuoti
 * Maori: nanunanu, whakahāhā
 * Ukrainian:, , ,


 * Asturian: bilordiar
 * Azerbaijani: çərənləmək
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: sludre, plapre, vrøvle,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Galician:, , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θρυλέω, λαλέω
 * Icelandic: babla, masa, þvæla, vera með heimskuhjal, tala of mikið,, blaðra, kjafta frá, fleipra út úr sér
 * Ingrian: törissä
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: pļāpāt
 * Maori: kapekapetau, kapetau
 * Norwegian:, plapre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: niða, hjala
 * Ingrian: šolissa
 * Italian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: murmulēt, murmuļot, murmināt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: дзюрча́ти, дзюркота́ти, дзюркоті́ти, журча́ти
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Danish: vrøvle
 * Finnish: ,
 * Maori: whakahāhā


 * Danish: røbe
 * Finnish: laverrella,
 * Latvian: izpļāpāties
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * 1) Idle talk; senseless prattle
 * 2) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
 * 3) A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
 * 1) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
 * 2) A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
 * 1) A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:chatter

Translations

 * Asturian: bilordiu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: pladder, bavl
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ტიტინი, ტიკტიკი, ბუტბუტი, ლუღლუღი, ყბედობა, ენის ტარტარი
 * German:
 * Icelandic: babl, óskýrt tal, heimskulegt þvaður, mas
 * Italian:
 * Persian:, یاوه گفتن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Yiddish: פּלוידערײַ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: mumlen, pludren
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ლუღლუღი, ბუტბუტი
 * German: Brabbeln,
 * Icelandic: babl, óskýrt tal, heimskulegt þvaður, mas
 * Italian: balbettio
 * Persian: نارسا گویی
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: jerigonza,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: pludren
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, vatnsniður
 * Italian:
 * Maori: hīwawā
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: