Cross-linguistic Onomatopoeias - Physical and Natural Phenomena - Thunder

Thunder

  • In Batak, rapak, maturapak, dugu-dugu-dugu
  • In English, roll, rumble
  • In Finnish, jyrin, jylin
  • In German, groll, grummel
  • In Japanese, goro goro ゴロゴロ
  • In Russian, tararam тарарам, tram-tararam трам-тарарам

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