From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], ultimately from [en], from
[en].
Cognate with [sco], [sco], [fy], [fy], [fy], [nl], [nds], [de], [de].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun] [Sheep bleating.ogg]
1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat .
**** Synonyms
- [sheep's cry] [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[cry of a sheep or a goat]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [sheep's cry] [fr] , [goat's cry] [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] / [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [sheep's bleat] [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry of baa s; of a human, to mimic this sound.
2. * [1=en]
3. [en] Of a person, to complain .
4. [en] Of a person, to say things of little importance to the listener.
5. * [chapter=XVII]
6. * {{ quote-book
|1=en
|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Age_of_Heroes/X1DlDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22bleating%22&pg=PT94&printsec=frontcover
|title=Age of Heroes |author=James Lovegrove |year=2016 |publisher=Solaris
|isbn=9781786180476 |passage=I can't have, for instance, Heracles come
BLEATING to me at some future date, asking please can he have his bow back,
and getting all stroppy when I refuse to tell him where it is.}}
**** Synonyms
- [make the characteristic cry of a sheep or goat] baa
- [complain] kvetch [US] , moan , whinge [UK] , whine
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to make the cry of a sheep or goat]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] [sheep] , [fi] [goat]
- French: [sheep or goat] [fr] , [goat] [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Malay: [ms]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[informal: to complain]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Old English
*** Etymology
From [ang], from [ang], whence also [goh], [non]. More at [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [blēat]
*** Adjective
[blēat]
1. wretched , miserable
**** Declension
[blēat]
**** Derived terms
- [ang]
**** Descendants
- [enm]
- [sco]
** West Frisian
*** Etymology
From [fy], from [fy].
Cognate with [nl], [de].
*** Adjective
[fy]
1. bare , naked
2. poor
**** Inflection
[fy-infl-adj]
**** Further reading
- [9292]