blare

Meaning

1. Often followed by out: of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly.
2. To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
3. To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
4. To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blɛə/

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣren, from Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Low German blaeren, blaren, blarren * Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)