Ewes bleat to call their lambs, the most gentle and meekest of animals.
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Bleat
//ˈbliːt//
Synonyms for "bleat" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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11 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
4 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
115 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- blegërij noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βληχή noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- βληχάομαι verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Arabic
4 entries- ثُغَاء noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- مَأْمَأَة noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- ثَغَا verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- مَأْمَأَ verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Bulgarian
2 entries- блеене noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- блея verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Catalan
2 entries- bel noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- belar verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- باع noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- باڵاندن noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
Czech
4 entries- bek noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bečení noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- mečení noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bečet verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Danish
3 entries- mæh noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bræge verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- mæe verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Dutch
4 entries- geblaat noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- blaten verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- blèren verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- mekkeren verb (informal: to complain)
Esperanto
2 entries- beo noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bei verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Faroese
4 entries- jarm noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- jarman noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- jarming noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- jarma verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Finnish
4 entries- määintä noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- määkiminen noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- marista verb (informal: to complain)
- määkiä verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
French
4 entries- béguètement noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bêlement noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bêlement noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bégueter verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Galician
1 entries- bradar verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
German
3 entries- Blöken noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- blöken verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- blöken verb (informal: to complain)
Greek
3 entries- βέλασμα noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- βελάζω verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- βελάζω verb (informal: to complain)
Hawaiian
2 entries- heʻehe noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- māʻāʻā noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
Hebrew
4 entries- חניבה noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- פעיה noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- חנב verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- פעה verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Icelandic
2 entries- jarmur noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- jarma verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Ido
3 entries- bramo noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bramar verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- bramar verb (informal: to complain)
Indonesian
4 entries- embek noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- embek noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- embik noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- embik verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Ingrian
2 entries- bäkättää verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- bääkkää verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Italian
2 entries- belato noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- belare verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Latgalian
1 entries- vēkšt verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Latin
2 entries- balatus noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bālō verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Latvian
1 entries- blēt verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Malay
2 entries- embek noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- mengembek verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Middle English
1 entries- bleten verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- mekring noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- breka verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- mekra verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Old English
3 entries- blǣt noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- blǣtung noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- blǣtan verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Polish
3 entries- bek noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- beczeć verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- beczeć verb (informal: to complain)
Portuguese
2 entries- balido noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- balir verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Russian
4 entries- бле́яние noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- бле́янье noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- бле́ять verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
- бле́ять verb (informal: to complain)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- meig noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- meigead noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- migead noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- meigeall verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- blejanje noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- blejati verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Spanish
2 entries- balido noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- balar verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Swedish
2 entries- bräkande noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- bräka verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Tagalog
3 entries- me noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- mee noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- mumee verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Turkish
3 entries- me noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- meleme noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- melemek verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Welsh
1 entries- brefu verb (to make the cry of a sheep or goat)
Yaghnobi
3 entries- бааст noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- вааст noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
- ԝааст noun (cry of a sheep or a goat)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I cannot bleat like a sheep. I'm a shepherd dog.
Source: tatoeba (1681893)
Then too the sheep began to bleat, while the lambs frisked on the sward, or stooped under their mothers to suck. And the he-goats contended for their mates, jealously guarding the one they selected from the approaches of any rival.
Source: tatoeba (6213103)
Benedito heard the buck bleat loudly and wondered if it was in distress.
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