onomatopoeia

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
 * 2)  A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
 * 3)  A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
 * 4)  The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
 * 1)  The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُحَاكَاة صَوْتِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: onomatopeia
 * Bulgarian: ономатопе́я
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 狀聲
 * Czech: zvukomalba,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: onomatopoeettisuus,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, ხმაბაძვა
 * German:, Klangnachahmung , Lautnachahmung, Schallnachahmung, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: स्वनानुकरणात्मक,
 * Hungarian: hangutánzó jelleg
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, pembentukan kata yg meniru suara
 * Irish: onamataipé, fuaimfhoclaíocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: onomatopoeia
 * Macedonian: ономатопе́ја, подражавање
 * Manx: arrish-ockleeaght
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sintunog, onomatopeya
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yoruba: ìfìrósínròójẹ


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ономатопея
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 擬聲語,
 * Czech: zvukomalebné slovo,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: ljóðorð
 * Finnish: onomatopoeettinen sana
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: lautmalerisches Wort, lautmalendes Wort, lautnachahmendes Wort, klangnachahmendes Wort, onomatopoetisches Wort, Klangwort, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: स्वनानुकरणात्मक,
 * Hungarian: hangutánzó-hangulatfestő/hangfestő szó
 * Icelandic: hljóðlíkingarorð,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: onomatopoëticum, onomatopoēticum
 * Macedonian: ономатопе́ја, подражавање
 * Manx:
 * Maori: kupu ororite, kupu pakoire oro
 * Norwegian: lydord,
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: صوت,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ономатопе́ја
 * Roman:
 * Shuar: métek-chícham
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: sintunog, onomatopeya
 * Turkish:, yansıma sözcük
 * Vietnamese: từ tượng thanh
 * Welsh: onomatopeia

Etymology
From the.

Noun

 * 1)   the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies