What is an onomatopoeia?
Source: tatoeba (6061093)
Onomatopoeia
/ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə/
Synonyms for "onomatopoeia" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
Noun(19 words)
Interjection(1 words)
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4 entrieslexical itemlinguistic devicelinguistic researchrhetorical device
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7 entriesCollocations
6 entriesonomatopoeia definitiononomatopoeia exampleonomatopoeia termonomatopoeic formonomatopoeic soundonomatopoeic word
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- onomatope noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Armenian
1 entries- բնաձայնություն noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təqlidi söz noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ономатопея noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Catalan
1 entries- onomatopeia noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 擬聲詞 /拟声词 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- 擬聲語 /拟声语 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- 狀聲詞 /状声词 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- 象聲詞 /象声词 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Czech
2 entries- onomatopoion noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- zvukomalebné slovo noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Danish
2 entries- lydord noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- onomatopoietikon noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Dutch
2 entries- klanknabootsing noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- onomatopee noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Esperanto
2 entries- onomatopeo noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- sonimito noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Estonian
1 entries- kõlasõna noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Faroese
1 entries- ljóðorð noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Finnish
1 entries- onomatopoeettinen sana noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
French
1 entries- onomatopée noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Galician
1 entries- onomatopeia noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
German
4 entries- Klangwort noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- Onomatopoetikum noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- Schallwort noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- klangnachahmendes Wort noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Greek
1 entries- ονοματοποιία noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Hindi
2 entries- अनुकरण noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- स्वनानुकरणात्मक noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Hungarian
1 entries- hangutánzó-hangulatfestő/hangfestő szó noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Icelandic
2 entries- hljóðgervingur noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- hljóðlíkingarorð noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Italian
1 entries- onomatopea noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Japanese
4 entries- オノマトペ noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- 擬声語 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- 擬態語 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- 擬音語 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Korean
1 entries- 의성어 noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Latin
2 entries- onomatopoēticum noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- vocābulum onomatopoēticum noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Macedonian
2 entries- ономатопе́ја noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- подражавање noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Māori
2 entries- kupu ororite noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- kupu pakoire oro noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Norwegian
2 entries- lydord noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- onomatopoetikon noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Persian
1 entries- نامآوا noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Polish
2 entries- onomatopeja noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- wyraz dźwiękonaśladowczy noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Portuguese
1 entries- onomatopeia noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Punjabi
2 entries- صوت noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- ਸੌਤ noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Romanian
1 entries- onomatopee noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Russian
2 entries- звукоподража́ние noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- ономатопе́я noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- onomatopéja noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- ономатопе́ја noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Shuar
1 entries- métek-chícham noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Spanish
1 entries- onomatopeya noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Tagalog
2 entries- onomatopeya noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- sintunog noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Turkish
2 entries- onomatope noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- yansıma sözcük noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Ukrainian
2 entries- звуконаслі́дування noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
- ономатопе́я noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Vietnamese
1 entries- từ tượng thanh noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Welsh
1 entries- onomatopeia noun (word that sounds like what it represents)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Some of the onomatopoeia in Japanese make no sense to me.
Source: tatoeba (9337166)
A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia, is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things.
Source: wiktionary