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Cry

Definition: Cry

Cry

Noun

1. A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience".

2. A loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate); "a cry of rage"; "a yell of pain".

3. A slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms".

4. A fit of weeping; "had a good cry".

5. The characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night".

Verb

1. Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me".

2. Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs".

3. Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!'" he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost".

4. Proclaim or announce in public; "before we had newspapers, a town cryer would cry the news"; "He cried his merchandise in the market square".

5. Demand immediate action; "This situation is crying for attention".

6. Utter a characteristic sound; "The cat was crying".

7. Bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Cry

DomainDefinition

Literature

Cry
Great cry and little wool. This is derived from the ancient mystery of David and Abigail, in which Nabal is represented as shearing his sheep, and the Devil, who is made to attend the churl, imitates the act by "shearing a hog." Originally, the proverb ran thus, "Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the hogs." N.B. - Butler alters the proverb into "All cry and no wool."
Cry (To).
To cry over spilt milk. To fret about some loss which can never be repaired. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Tears

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


Tears trickling down the cheeks

Lachrymation refers to the body's process of producing tears, which clean and lubricate the eyes.

The word lachrymation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying.

Crying is increased lachrymation due to emotion, with the result of tears in one's eyes, possibly trickling down the cheeks, in some cases accompanied by characteristic sobbing sounds.

The emotion is often sadness, but can also be joy, etc.

Babies cry a lot in case of general discomfort.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cry

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CRY

EnglishCryptochromeMedicine
Cry.EnglishCrystalIndustry, Mining

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Cry

Synonyms: battle cry (n), call (n), rallying cry (n), shout (n), vociferation (n), war cry (n), blazon out (v), call out (v), cry out (v), exclaim (v), holler (v), hollo (v), outcry (v), scream (v), shout out (v), squall (v), weep (v), yell (v). (additional references)
Antonym: laugh (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cry

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impulse

Prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette; (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude,.dustoor.

Indication

Word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry; battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell.

News

Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

Publication

Publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype; vox populi; report; (news).

Voice

Vocalization; cry; strain, utterance, prolation; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery.

Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cry

English words defined with "cry": battle cryfar cryrallying cryTo cry down, To cry on, To cry you mercyWar cry. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cry": Achemon, Alla Akbar, Articles of RoupBabes, BEG, BOOTHCatch-word, Cherry Trees and the Cuckoo, CHERUBIMS, Christian Traditions, Cri-du-Chat Syndrome, Cries, Cross, Cry Havock!, Cry of Animals, Cry Quits, Cry WolfDaughter of the Horseleech, Dead Pan, Dry Shave, Dying SayingsFabulinus, Fare Well, First Stroke is Half the BattleGame's Afoot, Go it, Warwick!, Great Cry and Little WoolHaro, Hurrah'I didn't change anything!, IMMORTALITYkiller microLaugh on the Other Side of Your MouthMotherNay-word, No More PolesPALLIARDS, Parliament Soldiers, Patience cry the Lepers, Peceavi, Perseverance, Pilate Voice, PILLALOO, Piou-piou, Pork! Pork!Razed ShoesSave the Mark, Sing Out, Singing Apple, Soho!, Spilt Milktariff, TO BLUBBER, TO YOWLWHIMPER, WHINDLE. (references)
Etymologies containing "cry": Yarwhip. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cry

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So a vampire can cry. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

A number of the inmates, as tough as they acted during the day, would often cry themself to sleep at night (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

I couldn't cry, so once again I couldn't sleep (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

Don't cry. Just score it as an incomplete forward pass (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

You both just stared at each other for longest time, and you didn't even cry. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Lyrics

Baby. cry (Cry; performing artist: Mandy Moore)

So I'll cry for you (Cry For You; performing artist: Jodeci)

Why don't I feel her cry for help (Cry For Help; performing artist: Rick Astley)

And I can't cry anymore (Can't Cry Anymore; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry (Grown Men Don't Cry; performing artist: Tim McGraw)

Clever

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. (references; author: unknown)

I used to cry, for I had no shoes to wear--until I saw a man with no feet. (references; author: unknown)

Life is like an onion: You peel it off layer by layer, and sometimes you cry. (references; author: unknown)

Telling the truth and making someone cry is just as bad as telling a lie and making someone smile! (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

I cannot bear to see a bear bear down upon a hare. When bare of hair he strips the hare, right there I cry, "Forbear! (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Cry of the Wild (1973)

Bad Girls Do Cry (1965)

Cry of Battle (1963)

The Cry Baby Killer (1958)

A Cry from the Streets (1958)

Song Titles

Cry Baby (performing artist: Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters)

Don't Cry (performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

Let Her Cry (performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish)

I Cry (performing artist: Ja Rule)

Cry For You (performing artist: Jodeci)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cry

DomainTitle

Books

  • Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging (reference)

  • Cry of the Wolf (Avalon, 3) (reference)

  • Blade of the Immortal: Cry of the Worm (reference)

  • A Cry of Absence (reference)

  • The Cry of Balintawak: A Contrived Controversy: A Textual Analysis With Appended Documents (Centennial of the Revolution) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Target of an Assassin (aka African Rage, Tigers Don't Cry, The Long Shot and Fatal Assassin) (reference)

  • Cry of the Banshee (reference)

  • Cry, the Beloved Country (reference)

  • Berserk - War Cry (reference)

  • Wild Cats: Cry of Coda (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cry

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Photo Album: Cry

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Shown is page 2 of the newspaper Washington Post on August 6, 1937 just after President Roosevelt signed a bill to authorize the erection of the National Cancer Institute, with Dr. Carl Voegtlin as the Chief. Shown are photos of Drs. Carl Voegtlin, R. H. Fitch, Herbert Kaher and Thomas Parran (Surgeon General). Shown is "'Conquer Cancer' Adopted as Battle Cry of the Public Health Service.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

...They cry, who want it; having it they laugh. / [John Collier] Thos. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The battle cry of freedom. Credit: Library of Congress.

Echo -- the cry of the yes-man. Credit: Library of Congress.

A cry for help. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Keep 'em flying" is our battle cry! Do your part for duty - honor - country / Dan V. Smith ; Albro F. Downe. Credit: Library of Congress.

The death cry / S. Eastman, U.S. Army del. ; printed in color by P.S. Duval ; executed on stone by C. Schuesele. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cry out. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reach some receptive ear ... Credit: Library of Congress.

How can I find someone to talk to and cry with, when if I had someone, there wouldn't be a problem or a need to cry?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Cry
 

"I cant cry these tears anymore" by Filip Schneider
Commentary: "At the edge."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Cry".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Long baby cry.Scared donkey cry.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Cry

AuthorQuotation

Abraham Lincoln

I laugh because I must not cry.

Charles Reade

Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

John Milton

License they mean when they cry liberty.

Miguel de Cervantes

'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.

Oscar Wilde

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

William Shakespeare

Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry.
When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Cry

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

To which I answer, First, No more than any other hypothesis: for when the people are made miserable, and find themselves exposed to the ill usage of arbitrary power, cry up their governors, as much as you will, for sons of Jupiter; let them be sacred and divine, descended, or authorized from heaven; give them out for whom or what you please, the same will happen. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Cry

TitleAuthorQuote

Only a Woman's Hair

Carroll, Lewis

Nay! In those words there rings from other years The echo of a long low cry, Where a proud spirit wrestles with its tears In loneliest agony

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

After nearly four years of total isolation he was so pleased and relieved to see Ford that he could almost cry. Ford was, on the other hand, an almost immediately annoying person

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The cry had evidently startled him.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Javert had not uttered a cry.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trifled as the flying beaks clove the air.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

I cry thee mercy

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in the coming days

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me, for I thought it below me to cry out.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Still on they came, and now the near woods resounded through all their aisles with their demoniac cry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cry

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

They may occasionally grimace, cry, or laugh. (references)

A person having a severe seizure may cry out, fall to the floor unconscious, twitch or move uncontrollably, drool, or even lose bladder control. (references)

Patients may suddenly laugh or cry for no apparent reason, they may be apathetic, or they may have occasional angry outbursts, also for no apparent reason. (references)

Business

Popular back in the 30's and 40’s, today's vinyl flooring (no longer refered to as linoleum) is a far cry from the vinyl flooring grandma had on her kitchen floor. (references)

Women

Kuwait

In October the court threw out a case of a runaway maid who was reportedly picked up by two rapists and held for 4 days, because she did not cry for help or attempt to escape when left alone by the alleged rapists. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. The Enemy of Human Souls Sat grieving at the cost of coals; For Hell had been annexed of late, And was a sovereign Southern State. "It were no more than right," said he, "That I should get my fuel free. The duty, neither just nor wise, Compels me to economize -- Whereby my broilers, every one, Are execrably underdone. What would they have? -- although I yearn To do them nicely to a turn, I can't afford an honest heat. This tariff makes even devils cheat! I'm ruined, and my humble trade All rascals may at will invade: Beneath my nose the public press Outdoes me in sulphureousness; The bar ingeniously applies To my undoing my own lies; My medicines the doctors use (Albeit vainly) to refuse To me my fair and rightful prey And keep their own in shape to pay; The preachers by example teach What, scorning to perform, I teach; And statesmen, aping me, all make More promises than they can break. Against such competition I Lift up a disregarded cry. Since all ignore my just complaint, By Hokey-Pokey! I'll turn saint!" Now, the Republicans, who all Are saints, began at once to bawl Against his competition; so There was a devil of a go! They locked horns with him, tete-a-tete In acrimonious debate, Till Democrats, forlorn and lone, Had hopes of coming by their own. That evil to avert, in haste The two belligerents embraced; But since 'twere wicked to relax A tittle of the Sacred Tax, 'Twas finally agreed to grant The bold Insurgent-protestant A bounty on each soul that fell Into his ineffectual Hell. Edam Smith

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Cry

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dan Rather

The marines' battle cry, their creed, is be quick and be deadly and that is why the corps is expected to be among the first to sweep deep into Iraq.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Cry

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Those voices are beginning to cry aloud again.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989But with that one exception, let us look to those others in our land who cry out for children to adopt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Cry

"Cry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 48.48% of the time. "Cry" is used about 2,984 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)48.48%1,4465,584
Lexical Verb (infinitive)43.29%1,2926,114
Lexical Verb (base form)8.2%24519,065
Unclassified Items0.03%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,984N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Cry

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "cry".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AraunahN/ABiblical

Joyful cry

ElulN/ABiblical

Cry or outcry

HiddaiN/ABiblical

A cry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Cry

Expressions using "cry": A far cry a far cry from a far cry to ad cry you mercy answering cry battle cry begin to cry child who cry a lot cry aloud for cry away cry barley cry bitterly cry blue murder cry buckets cry cherries cry down cry for cry for help cry for the moon cry like a child cry mercy cry murder cry of distress cry of joy cry of pain cry of tin cry of 'yes' cry off cry off from smth. cry on smb.'s shoulder cry one's eyes out cry one's heart out cry oneself to sleep cry out cry out against cry out before one is hurt cry out for cry out in alarm cry out lustily cry out to cry over cry over spilt milk Cry protein cry quits cry shame cry shame at cry shame upon cry shame upon smb. cry sobbingly cry to heaven for vengeance cry uncle cry up cry with joy cry wolf far cry Full cry give a cry have a good cry hue and cry in full cry it is a far cry from make cry make smb. cry much cry and little wool parrot cry plaintive cry raise a cry raise a hue and cry raise a hue and cry against rallying cry ready to cry send a cry shriek out a cry for help street cry the popular cry tin cry To cry aim To cry cupboard To cry down To cry halves To cry on To cry out To cry out against To cry out on to cry out upon To cry quits To cry to To cry up to cry upon To cry you mercy war cry within cry. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "cry": cry-babies, cry-baby, cry-baby tree, cry-off, cry-sis, cry-y.

Ending with "cry": battle-cry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

devil may cry

1,894

2 code cry devil may

90

devil may cry 2

996

when dove cry

89

cry

929

cry no no woman

87

cry me a river

917

cry devil may wallpaper

86

2 cheat cry devil may

285

smile now cry later

79

2 cry devil may through walk

258

boy dont cry

77

cheat for devil may cry

245

cry mandy moore

77

devil may cry walk through

228

i cry for you

73

boy don t cry

210

2 cheat code cry devil may

72

cry baby

164

cry remix river

71

cry me a river lyrics

158

3 cry devil may

69

roll of thunder hear my cry

151

battle cry

68

cry faith hill lyrics

120

author battle cry

67

far cry

111

cry justin lyrics river timberlake

66

cry lyrics mandy moore

111

cry faith hill

62

cry justin river timberlake

109

cry lyrics no no woman

61

cry the beloved country

104

do i have to cry

60

cry lyrics

103

devil may cry cheat and code

60

cry last one

102

devil may cry code

59

don t cry for me

92

cry devil may pic

58
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Modern Translation: Cry

Language Translations for "cry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

skreeu (cry out, scream, shout), angskreet (cry of distress). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

parull, britmë (call, clamor, clamour, ejaculation, howl, hue, note, outcry, scream, screech, shout, shouting, shriek, squall, yell), gërthas (scream, shout), gërthitje (clamor, clamour, outcry, scream, shout), kërkoj me zë të lartë, klithmë (bell, note, scream, screech, shoot, squall, squeal, yowl), lehje e zagarëve, lutje (appeal, application, claim, demand, desire, devotion, devotions, entreaty, obsecration, obtestation, orison, paternoster, petition, plea, pleading, prayer, praying, request, rogation, supplication, wish), bërtas (bawl, call, Caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, holler, objurgate, scream, shout, shout at, shriek, squall, vociferate, whoop, yell), njoftoj (advertise, advertize, advise, announce, break, communicate, convey, give out, inform, instruct, message, nark, notify, page, placard, post, report, tell), vaj (alas, bewailing, coronach, dope, fat, lachrymation, lament, lamentation, oil, seed oil, whine), qaj (bawl, bewail, deplore, lament, mourn, rain, weep, whimper), qarje (cavil, complaint, grumble, kick, lament, mourning, plaint, snivel), shpallje (annunciation, asseveration, delation, divulge, enunciation, notification, proclamation, promulgation, pronouncement, pronouncing, report, ticket), të qarë (crying, sobbing, whimpering), thërras (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, drum up, exclaim, hail, holler, invite, obtest, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thërres (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, exclaim, give a cry, hail, holler, invite, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thirrje (appeal, call, calling, citation, convocation, ejaculation, exclamation, muster, outcry, proclamation, shout, subpoena, summons, whoop), njoftim (advertisement, announcement, annunciation, banns, blurb, data, despatch, dispatch, information, knowledge, message, news, note, notice, notification, placard, proclamation, report, service, tidings, tip off). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عج (clamor, clamour, roar, shout, vociferate), ‏بكى (bring out, fret, greet, set off, sob, weep, whine), ‏شعار سياسي, ‏أثار ضجة (raise cain), ‏أذاع (bandy, blazon, break, broadcast, celebrate, circulate, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, radio, transmit, vend), ‏أعلن عن (placard, ventilate), ‏إلتمس (ask, beg, beseech, canvass, crave, implore, petition, plead, request, solicit, sue, woo), ‏صرخ (call, call out, clamor, clamour, exclaim, holler, make noise, outcry, pop off, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, squeak, yell), ‏بكاء (crier, crying, maudlin, wailing, weeping, weepy), ‏صاح (bawl, call, call out, clear, crow, holler, hoot, scream, shout, sing out, squall, squawk, squeal, vociferate), ‏هتاف (acclaim, acclamation, applause, cheer, cheering, clarion, ejaculation, exclamation, hallo, ovation, plaudit, whoop, yell), ‏عوى (grizzle, howl, squeak, yelp, yowl), ‏تباكى (snivel, weep), ‏نبح (bark, bay, howl, yap, yelp), ‏نباح (bark, barking, howl, tongue, ululation, yap, yelp), ‏نادى (call, call for, call out, club, hail, page, proclaim, sing), ‏نعب (caw, croak), ‏نحيب (wailing), ‏صرخة (holler, pax, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, yell). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

jachaña (to cry). (various references)

   

Basque

  

nigar egin (cry to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рева (bark, bellow, blubber, heehaw, hoot, pipe, roar, squall, trumpet, yell), рев (bawl, bluster, hoot, howl, rave, roan, roar, roaring, squall, trumpet, yell), крясък (clamor, clamour, honk, hoot, scream, shriek, squawk, whoop, yell), вой (clamor, clamour, howl, rave, wail, whine, yawl, yowl), викам (barrack, bawl, call, clamor, clamour, create, holler, hollo, holloa, pop off, roar, scream, shout, sing out, vocalize, vociferate, whoop, yell), вик (bawl, call, scream, shout, whoop, yell), мълва (bruit, fame, report, reportage, rumor, rumour, scuttlebutt, speech, wind), апел (appeal, conjuration, plea, proclamation), повик (battle cry, call, outcry, watchword), плача (blubber, complain, lament, pipe, sob, weep), плач (boohoo, crying, lament, lamentation, mourning, plaint, tears, weep, weeping), писък (peep, scream, screech, shriek, squall, squeak, squeal, yawl, yowl). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

crit (shout), plorar (weep). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(day of a month, name of a ship, number, roar), (call, to call, to shout), 啼声 (Cries), (clear sound). (various references)

   

Czech

  

plakat (weep). (various references)

   

Danish

  

råb (shout), græde (weep). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schreeuw (scream, shout), roep (fame, hearsay, renown, reputation, repute, rumor, rumour, shout), kreet (howl, shout). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

plori (weep), krio (shout). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

skríggj (shout), róp (shout), gráta (weep). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فریادزدن (Bawl, Hoot, Howl, Shout, Yell), فریاد (Call, Calling, Gaff, Greet, Groan, Outcry, Shout, Shriek, Squawk, Squeal, Whoop), گریه کردن (Give, Mourn, Sob, Weep), گریه (Greet, Sob, Tear), صداکردن (Clang, Click, Rustle), خروش (Roar, Slogan), دادزدن (Bawl, Roar, Root, Shout), بانگ زدن (Crow, Exclaim), بانگ (Call). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

itkeä (weep). (various references)

   

French

  

pleurer, cri (crier). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

skreau (shout), gûle (weep). (various references)

   

German

  

weinen (crying, to cry (for), to weep, weep, weeping, wept, whine), Schrei (Bray, call, crow, honk, hoot, howl, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, squeal, yell), schreien (bawl, Bray, call, call out, clamor, clamour, crow, cry out, cry up, crying, honk, hoot, howl, moan, scream, scream out, screech, shout, shouting, shriek, squall, squeal, to clamour, to scream, to screech, to squall, vociferate, wail, whoop, yell, yell out), Ruf (call, fame, hearsay, hoot, name, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, rumor, rumour, shout, telephone number, whoop), rufen (bleeding, call, call out, calls, hail, hoot, scream out, send for, shout, sound, summon, to call, to shout), heulen (bawl, bawling, blubber, blubber out, hoot, howl, howling, roar, roaring, scream, screaming, snivel, to cry, to hoot, to howl, ululate, ululation, wail, wailing, whine, whining, yell, yowl, yowling). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κραυγή (bawl, call, clamor, clamour, halloo, holler, outcry, scream, shout, squall, vociferation, whoop, yell), κλαίω (mourn, wail, weep), φωνάζω (bawl, call, call out, caterwaul, clamor, clamour, halloo, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout to, squawk, yawp, yell). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לזעוק (lament, outcry, shout, wail), לבכות (bewail, blubber, deplore, howl, lament, mourn, snivel, weep), לנאוק (groan, wail), תרועה (alarm, blare, blast, cheer, shout, tattoo, trumpet call), קריאה (appeal, call, challenge, interjection, proclamation, reading, recitation), זעקה (hue and cry, outcry, rebuke, shout), בכי (crying, weeping, whine), בכה (crying, in this way, wailing, weep, weeping), צוחה (outcry, scream, shout, shriek, yell), צעקה (call, clamour, holler, outcry, shout, yell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sírás (crying, wail, weeping), kiabálás (clamor, clamour, exclamation, hoot, hue and cry, roar, roaring, shout, shouting, vociferation), kiáltás (call, calling, chirp, chirping, crying, ejaculation, exclamation, hoop, hue and cry, shout, squall, whoop). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

gráta (weep). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

teriakan (bawling, hoot, screaming, yell), tangis, seruan (ejaculation, exclamation), recet (protest), pekikan (scream, yell), menangis (bawl, blubber, boohoo, weep). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

qiajuq (to cry), nilliajuq (to cry out). (various references)

   

Irish

  

glaonn. (various references)

   

Italian

  

grido (bawl, call, exclamation, hail, hollo, holloa, hoop, hoot, hue, outcry, scream, shout, squall, whoop), piangere (bawl, grieve for, mourn, sob, weep), gridare (bawl, call, clamour, cry out, hoot, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, storm, whoop, yell). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鳴き声  (roar), 鳴き声 (roar), 人声 (human voice), 泣き声  (crying voice), 泣き声 (crying voice), . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

なきごえ (crying voice, roar), きょ (big, great, large, pride, squatting with legs outstretched), ひとごえ (human voice). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

외침 (Call, Cries). (various references)

   

Manx

  

yllagh (acclaim, barrack, call, call upon, exclamation, page, shout, vocation), sheeb (a sharp scold, drift, gust, puff), keayney (crying, deplore, greet, keening, lament, lamentation, lamenting, mourn, mourning, wail, wailing, weep, weeping, weeping; keen-minded), eamaghey (moo, shout, vociferate), eam (bell, bell of stag, call, low, low of cattle, moo, shout). (various references)

   

Maya

  

okol (to cry). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

gråte (weep). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

plorar. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

yora (weep), gritu (scream, shout), grito (shout). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ycray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

płakać (weep). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

grito (bawl, call, crying, hoot, scream, shout, whoop, yell), chorar (bemoan, bewail, burst into tears, ding, grizzle, mewl, mourn, mule, pule, scandalize, wail, weep). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

chemare (appeal, call, calling, challenge, convocation, halloo, invitation, invocation, shout, slogan, summons, vocation), plânset (blubber), ţipãt (hoot, outcry, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squawk, yell), anunţa (advertise, announce, annunciate, bid, bill, blow around, forebode, foretell, give notice, give out, Herald, import, inform, instruct, notify, promise, publish, report, ring, usher in), anunţa cu glas tare, bâzâi (buzz, drone, growl, grumble, hum, ping, whimper, whizz), exclama (break out, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, shout), glasul opiniei publice, implorare (adjuration, entreaty, imploration, suppliance, supplication), lãtra (bark, bay, give mouth, speak), lãtrat (bark, barking, bay, bow wow), plânge (complain, grieve, hanker, lament, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, mourn, pipe, wail, weep), ţipa (bawl, call, honk, hoop, hoot, pipe, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, squeal, yell), plâns (tear stained, tears, weeping), zvon (breeze, bruit, gossip, grape vine, hearsay, hum, idle rumor, idle rumour, noise, peal, report, ringing, rumor, rumour, story, talk), proclama (announce, bid, blazon, declare, proclaim, profess, publish, sound), rugã (oration, orison, prayer), se jeli (wail), se vãita (whine), striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry cherries, cry out, ejaculate, hail, hallo, halloo, hollo, hoop, howl, page, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell), strigãt (bawl, call, calling, ejaculation, halloo, hoop, hoot, hue, outcry, roar, roaring, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), tângui (bewail, complain, deplore, wail, weep), urla (bluster, call, hoot, howl, rage, rave, roar, set up a howl, squall, wail, yell, yowl), vãrsa lacrimi (drop tears, shed tears, weep), vorbe (lip, talk), vorbi de rãu (malign), zbiera (bawl, bellow, bluster, Bray, cry out, roar), plânge dupã (cry for, lament for, mourn for, sorrow). (various references)

   

Romany

  

rovàv (to cry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

плакать (blubber, pipe, play the woman, weep, wept). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgread (a screech, scream, screech, shriek), glaodh (a cry, bird-lime, glue, proclaim, shout), éigh (a cry, proclaim, shout), éibh. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zov (call, calling), vapaj (longing), uzvik (exclamation, shout), plakati (blubber, sob, weep), plakanje (crying, weeping), plač (crying, sob, weeping), dozvati (call). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

llorar (bemoan, bewail, blubber, cry over, lament, mourn, pipe one's eye, shed tears, wail, water, weep), grito (bawl, bellow, call, daring, denunciation, ejaculation, exclamation, gasp, hail, halloo, hoot, howl, outcry, shout, shriek, yell). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

krey (weep). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skrik (clamor, clamour, outcry, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, whoop, yawp, yell, yelp), gråta (lament, weep), utrop (ejaculation, exclamation), skri (scream, shout), ropa (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cuckoo, halloo, holler, hoot, shout, summon, vociferate), rop (call, clamor, clamour, holler, hoot, outcry, scream, shout). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

iyák (shout). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การส่งเสียงประท้วงกึกก้อง (hue and cry), คำพูดให้กำลังใจ (rallying cry). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

feryat (bellow, clamor, clamour, howl, jeremiad, lamentation, outcry, scream, shout, ululation, wail), ağlamak (bewail, give a cry, mourn, pipe one's eye, pule, shed tears, snivel, turn on the waterworks, wail, weep, whimper, yammer). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

haяkylyk (outcry, shout), eсremek (weep), aglamak (weep). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кричати (bawl, call, chirp, clamor, clamour, exclaim, holler, honk, noise, shout, sing out, toot, vociferate, yawl, yell), крик (alarm, bawl, call, chirp, clang, hullabaloo, note, oration, yawl), зойк (clang, exclamation, shriek, squall, wail, whoop, yawl, yell), благати (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, conjure, crave, deprecate, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, obsecrate, petition, plead, supplicate), поговір (chit chat, hearsay), плач (blubber, lachrymation, lament, weep, weeping), плакати (lament, shed tears, weep). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tiếng khóc dư luận quần chúng (cried), tiếng kêu (call, chirp, cried, shout, whoop), tiếng hò hét (cried, shouting), tiêng la (cried), sợ (afraid, cried), lời kêu gọi sự khóc (cried). (various references)