croak

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The call of a frog or toad.
3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a croak sound.
2. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
3. (intransitive) To make its vocal sound.
4. (slang) To die.
5. (slang, transitive) To kill someone or something.
6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
7. (slang) To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.

Sinónimos

die

💀

pass away

caw

perish

kick the bucket

decease

expire

breathe one’s last

peg out

snuff it

choke

buy the farm

conk

croaking

drop dead

exit

go

pass

pop off

cash in one’s chips

give-up the ghost

sniff it

grumble

quack

demise

prophesy ill

rasp

ring down the curtain

pass on

give up the ghost

shout

gnarl

cease to be

squawk

succumb

hoot

mutter

join the choir invisible

go to meet ones maker

make noise

murmur

growl

mew

bray

cronk

succumb to

trill

trumpet

🎺

twitter

underlie

Traducións

coasser

croasser

crever

quaken

mourir

💀

πεθαίνω

sterben

💀

morire

💀

krächzen

verrecken

grasnar

casser sa pipe

krepieren

ins Gras beißen

abkratzen

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/kɹoʊk/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: *croken

Herdado de Old English: crācettan

Relativo a sueco: kråka

Relativo a alemán: krächzen

Relativo a sánscrito: गर्जति

Relativo a latín: grāculus

Relativo a serbocroata: grákati

In summary

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.