Domestic animal sounds

[manarai]

Hello to everyone! A lurker from Poland here :)

I have a question which may very well serve as a comic relief, I guess. Just today I told a friend of mine that English-speaking roosters go cock-a-doodle-doo (seemed pretty innocent, as far as off-hand remarks go) and she dissolved into helpless giggles, because apparently - honestly, imagine a

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[stefanyeah]

Some German onomatopoeias(what a word…)
Rooster: Kickericki
Dog: Wau Wau or Wuff
Cat: Miau
Cattle: Muh
Sheep/Goat: Määh

That's what I can think of right now.
Oh, birds might go 'tschiep tschiep'.

[verrucaria]

That's funny. In Polish, the counterpart of "tschiep tschiep" (cip cip) is how you'd call your chickens for a feeding. :)

[stefanyeah]

haha
That'd be puut puttputtputt or something similar.
That's why my first English teacher called 'put' the chicken verb. :p

[verrucaria]

I wonder how long it'd take a group of chickens to adjust from one call to the other... Probably one feeding--if even that. :)

[shorofsky]

Hello my Polish friend:-)

In Denmark:
Roosters: Kykkeliky
Kittehs: Miav
Dogs: Vov-vov or vuf-vuf
Horses: Vrinsk
Ducks: Kvakkvakkvak
Frogs: KvækKvæk
Birds: Pippippippip
Cows: Muh
Donkeys: Mææææh
Goats: Bæææh
Pigs: Øføføføføf

And that's all my brain can find right now... Hope it helps:-)

[naatz]

In Hebrew, roosters do 'kukuRIku', dogs 'hav hav', cats 'meow', cows 'moo', sheep {shaky} 'meh' donkeys 'ee-ah!', cats 'myau' {phonetic;}, fish 'bloob bloob'.

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[shorofsky]

Awesome, our fish say that too!

[naatz]

I felt so stupid putting it in!

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[naatz]

Heh, I keep correcting. Cats say 'myau' -- I think it's pronounced differently than 'meow'. Silly mistake there.

Ducks go 'Ga Ga' {or 'ga ga ga'}, and frogs 'kwa kwa'.

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[shigaisen]

German:
Meow - Miau (pretty much the same in regards to pronunciation)
Woof - Wuff, wau
Moo - Muh
Cock-a-doodle-doo - Kikeriki
Baa - Mäh
Croak - Quak
Chirp - Tschiep
Oink - Oink

Danish (same order):

Miav, vov, [no idea what a cow says], kikeriki (?), mæh, kvæk, pip, øf.

Japanese:
nyaa, wan-wan, mou. The rest I don't know.

[shorofsky]

Not kikeriki, but kykkeliky:-)

[spanishkyle]

In Spanish roosters say kikiriki

I was teaching onomatopoeias to some students the other day and honestly, the rooster will always sound like cock-a-doodle-do no matter how much they tell me that it doesn’t sound like one. Obviously, you have to say it with some inflection and rooster-like clucking sound but, it sounds like a rooster in my head.

Dog: guau guau
Cat: miau miau
Cow: muu
Bird: pio pio

[manarai]

Well, to be honest - a 'rooster crow' will always be a 'rooster crow' (or maybe this can vary too, depending on sub-species or whatever) but I just meant the words used to describe it.

A dog barking sounds pretty much the same no matter what language its master speaks, and yet Polish dogs go 'hau hau' [how-how] and there's no word in Polish similar to the 'whoof whoof'. Even though sometimes 'whoof' seems more fitting.