Murmur

Definition: Murmur

Murmur

Noun

1. A low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.

2. A schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant.

3. An abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves.

4. A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.

Verb

1. Speak softly or indistinctly; "She murmured softly to the baby in her arms".

2. Complain quietly.

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

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

Synonyms: Murmur

Lamentation

Noun: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.

Complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate; (disapprove).

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Crosswords: Murmur

Latin (humming, murmur, murmuring, roaring, rustling, whisper), Romanian (babble, babbling, Bicker, brawl, chatter, garrulity, hum, moan, mumbling, murmur, mutter, prattle, rhubarb, ripple, rustle, rustling, warble), Welsh (murmur).

There's no need to murmur, ma'am. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Father Pierre, why did you stay on in this colonial kampari-land, where the clink of glasses mingles with the murmur of a million mosquitoes, where waterfalls and whiskey wash away the worries of a world-weary whicker, where gin and tonics jingle in a gyroscopic jubilee of something beginning with J? (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

(A murmur erupts in the courthouse) She scared me so bad I hopped down an' turned the chair over. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

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

Books

• A Murmur in the Trees: Poems (reference)

• A Murmur of Mutiny. (reference)

• A murmur within me; theological themes of Come to the Father (reference)

• Murmur (reference)

• Murmur In The Woods: Selected Poems of Sunil Gangopadhyay (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Murmur of the Heart (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Spirit Murmur (reference)

• Murmur (reference)

• Murmur [GOLD CD] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born by the people without mutiny or murmur. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The shout died into a murmur, as one portion of the crowd after another obtained a glimpse of him.

Probably the principles and elements upon which regular gravitations in the moral order as well as in the material depend, began to murmur.

Under the dome of his tiny hat his unshaven face began to smile with pleasure and he was heard to murmur.

The song trailed off to a murmur, and then stopped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

One week later, an aortic murmur was identified during a routine evaluation by the family physician. (references)

In some cases, the valve may leak, creating a "heart murmur," which a doctor can hear with a stethoscope. (references)

Children with DiGeorge Anomaly may also have a variety of heart defects, which causes symptoms ranging from a heart murmur to heart failure. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "murmur": cardiac murmur ♦ converse in murmur ♦ heart murmur ♦ murmur against ♦ murmur discontentedly ♦ murmur vowel ♦ systolic murmur ♦ vesicular murmur ♦ without a murmur. Additional references.

Ending with "murmur": flood-murmur.

Albanian

murmuritje (gabble, grumble, mumble, mumbling, muttering), murmurimë (babble, burble, buzz, grunt, mutter), murmurij (grunt), shushurimë (rash, rustle, sough), shushurij, gurgullimë (gurgitation, gurgle, purl, ripple), gurgullij, fëshfërimë (froufrou, lisp, whisper), fëshfërij (rustle, sough, whisper). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هفيف (swish), ‏همهمة (hum, rumble), ‏همس (breathe, buzz, hiss, speak, susurration, whisper, whispering), ‏حفيف الأوراق, ‏تمتمة (mumbling, mutter, muttering, stammer, stammering, stutter, stuttering), ‏تذمر (clamor, clamour, complain, complaint, crab, croak, groan, grouch, grouchiness, growl, grudge, grumble, mutter, nag, plain, repine, snort, whimper), ‏طنين النحل, ‏خريرالماء (purl, ripple), ‏خر (babble, fall, prostrate), ‏دمدمة (growl, grumble, mutter, rumble, snarl), ‏دمدم (dumdum, growl, grumble, mump, mutter, rumble). (various references)

Basque

xuxurlatu (murmur to, whisper to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ромон (babble, burble, chatter, purl, ripple, susurration), ромоля (babble, brawl, purl, ripple), ромолене (whisper), шумолене (babble, lisp, rustle, swish, whisper), шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, coil, discord, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), шепот (burble, buzz, susurration, whisper), шепна (breathe, buzz, whisper), недоволствувам, недоволство (disaffection, discontent, discontentment, displeasure, dissatisfaction, grievance, grudge, malcontent, rebellion, rumble, rumbling, rumblings, trouble), мърморя (burble, chunter, crab, gripe, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, mutter), мърморене (groan, growl, grumble, mutter, muttering, natter, rumble, rumbling, rumblings), мрънкам, жужене (whiz, zoom), жужа (buzz, whiz), плисък (plash, splash). (various references)

Chinese 

私語 . (various references)

Czech

mumlat (hum, Maunder, mumble, mutter), mumlání, reptat (grouch, grouse, grumble, mutter, natter), bzukot (buzz, drone, whir, whirr). (various references)

Danish

mumlen, mislyd (bruit, noise, sound), susen, lyd (sound), hvisken, bilyd (bruit, noise, sound). (various references)

Dutch

murmelen (burble, gurgle, mutter, purl). (various references)

Esperanto

murmuro, murmuri (mutter), plaŭdeti (burble, gurgle, purl), lirli (burble, gurgle, purl). (various references)

Faeroese

murra (mutter, spin), illkennast (mutter), duna (howl, make a noise, mutter, roar). (various references)

Farsi 

سخن نرم , زمزمه کردن (Croon, Hum), زمزمه (Croon), شکایت (Complaint, Denunciation, Discontent, Grievance, Gripe, Groan, Moan, Protest, Rumble), شایعات (Canard). (various references)

Finnish

kohista (mutter, roar). (various references)

French

murmurer (mutter), murmure, bruit. (various references)

German

murmeln (babble, humming, mumble, murmuring, mutter, play marbles, to mumble, to murmur, to mutter), murren (bellyache, bellyaching, grumble, murmuring, mutter, muttering, repine, to repine). (various references)

Greek 

γογγύζω (grouch, growl, grumble, repine, throb), μεμψιμοιρία (querulousness, self-pity), μουρμούρισμα (mutter), ήχος (sound), ψιθύρισμα (bruit, noise, sound), ψιθυρίζω (mutter, rustle, whisper), ψίθυροσ (rustle, sough, whisper). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלמל (babble, buzz, chatter, mumble, mutter, splutter, sputter, stammer), לאיט�" (whisper), לחש (hiss, whisper), ל�"מ�"ם (mumble), ל�"�'ות (articulate, growl, meditate, pronounce, speak, utter, vocalize), לר� ן (chant, praise, sing), תרעומת (complaint, grievance, grudge, indignation, miff, resentment), אוש�" (bruit, fizz, fizzle, hiss, rustle, sound, whisper), �"מ�"ום (hum, rustling, stammer), �"ב�"וב (whisper), רשרוש (ripple, rustle, rustling, sough), רטן (grumble, mumble). (various references)

Hungarian

morog (grouch, growl, grumble, hum, mumble, to bitch, to burble, to burr, to give a grunt, to grouch, to grumble, to grunt, to mumble, to murmur, to mutter, to throat), mormol (Bicker, to lip, to murmur, to ripple), moraj (boom, clamor, clamour, hum, rumble, rumbling, rut), zúgolódik (grouse, to gripe, to grouse, to grumble, to murmur, to repine). (various references)

Indonesian

menggerutu (complain, grumble), gerumus, bisikan (whisper, whispering), berbisik (speak confidentally, whisper). (various references)

Italian

soffio (bladder, blister, blow, breath, bubble, puff, souffle, waft, whiff, whiffle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

怨声 (complaint), 囁き (whisper), 呟き (murmuring, mutter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ささやき (whisper), つぶやき (murmuring, mutter), え�"せい (away series, campaign, complaint, expedition, leaden, made of lead, malleability, pessimism, tour, weariness with life). (various references)

Manx

tallagh (disgruntled, grumble, grumbling, murmuring, reproach), jannoo tallagh. (various references)

Occitan

marmusar (whisper). (various references)

Pig Latin

urmurmay

Portuguese

resmungar (croak, groan, grouch, growl, grumble, mumble, mutter, nag, nag at, repine, scold), murmurar (bicker, brawl, bubble, coo, croon, gossip, groan, grumble, gurgle, ha, hum, lip, mutter, prattle, purl, repine, sough, whisper), murmúrio (babblement, brawl, breath, breeze, bubble, buzz, chatter, croon, embroidery, mutter, purl, ripple, sough, susurration, whisper, whispering). (various references)

Romanian

murmura (babble, Bicker, brawl, breathe, chatter, croak, growl, grumble, gurgle, kick, moan, mumble, mutter, Pearl, prattle, purl, ripple, round, rustle, sough, warble, whisper), murmur (babble, babbling, Bicker, brawl, chatter, garrulity, hum, moan, mumbling, mutter, prattle, rhubarb, ripple, rustle, rustling, warble), zumzet (buzz, buzzing, hum, zoom), zgomot (ado, bruit, bustle, clamor, clamour, dash, din, fuss, hubbub, noise, peal, racket, rattling, roll, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, shouting, slam, sound, splutter, to-do, tumult, uproar), susura (babble, Bicker, brawl, chatter, gurgle, hum, Pearl, prattle, purl, ripple, swish), susur (babble, brawl, chatter, gurgle, prattle, ripple, warble, whisper), rosti încet, protest înfundat, fremãta (Bate, bustle, fuss, roar, rustle, sough), fredona (croon, hum, vocalize), freamãt (bustle, commotion, hum, lisp, quiver, riot, rioting, riotousness, roaring, rush, rustle, rustling, sough, stir, storm, thrill, tremor, tumult, uproar, vibration, whir), foşni (rustle, sough, swish), foşnet (lisp, rustle, sough, swish), şopti (breathe, gurgle, round, whisper). (various references)

Russian 

роптать (repine), ропот (grumble, rumble), шум (bluster, bobbery, bruit, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, din, dust-up, friction, hubbub, hue, hue and cry, hullabaloo, kick up, kick-up, noise, noisiness, pother, racket, racquet, rough house, row, ruckus, rumpus, shindy, sound, turmoil, turnup, uproar, whir, whirr), шорох (whisper), шептать (whispered), ворчание (growl, grumble, grunt, mutter, muttering), журчать (babble, purl), журчание (chatter, purling), бормотать (babble, burble, gabble, gibber, jabber, lip, mumble, mutter, muttered, speak in one's beard), приглушенный шум голосов. (various references)

Scottish

talaich (be dissatisfied), dranndan (hum), borbhan (a purling sound, purling sound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrmor, romoriti, žamor (gurgle, sough), žagoriti, žagor (buzz), šumiti (hum, rustle), šum (noise). (various references)

Spanish

murmullo (babble, babbling, buzz, hum, murmuring, mutter, muttering, purl, ripple), murmurar (babble, backbite, Bicker, burble, carry on, criticize, mutter, niggle, purl, ripple). (various references)

Swedish

susa (sigh, sing, sough, susurrate, swish, swoosh, whirl, whiz, whizz), sorla (babble, buzz, gurgle, purl), porla (bubble, gurgle, purl, ripple), mummel (mumble, mutter, rumble), mumla (hum, mumble, mutter), knota (bone, grouse, grumble, knot, mutter, repine). (various references)

Thai

เสียงเต้นผิ�"ปกติของหัวใจซึ่งบ่งบอกถึงความผิ�"ปกติของลิ้นหัวใจ (ทางการแพทย์), เสียงพึมพำ, บ่นพึมพำ, การบ่นพึมพำ (murmuration). (various references)

Turkish

mırıltı (grumbling, hum, mumble, mutter), mırıldanmak (coo, croon, fret and fume, grizzle, grumble, hum, mump, mutter, pur, purr), uğuldamak (boom, buzz, howl, hum, ping, roar, scream, sing, sough, whistle), söylenmek (be said, be told, chide, complain, fret and fume, grouch, grouse, grumble, make a noise, repine, snarl, snarl at), söylenme (being told, complaining, grouch, grumble, snarl), homurtu (growl, grunt, mutter, snarl), homurdanmak (grouch, grouse, grumble, grunt, mutter, snarl, snarl at, snort), hırıltı (crepitation, growling, grunt, purring, rattle, snarling, souffle, wheeze), çağıltı (plash, purl), çağıldamak (babble, purl). (various references)

Turkmen 

юy, юirrildemek (purr), юillirdi, юillirdemek, hьmьrdemek (mutter). (various references)

Ukrainian

ремствувати (repine, wail, yammer), ремствування (clamor, clamour, lamentation, murmuring, plaint, rumble), шепотіти (whisper), бурмотання (burble, gabble, mutter, stammer), приглушений шум голосів, дзюрчати (babble, chatter, gurgle, ripple, whimper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng xì x� o (whispering), tiếng róc rách tiếng thì thầm, tiếng rì rầm (buzz), tiếng rì r� o (sough), lời than phiền (complaint), lời kêu ca (grievance). (various references)

Welsh

murmur, tuchan (groan, grumble), swnian (grumble, nag), su (buzz, hum), sibrwd (whisper), si%o (hiss, purl, whiz), si (buzz, whiz), grymial (grumble, mutter), grydian (grunt). (various references)

effrem, efrem, fremebant, fremebit, fremens, frementis, fremet, fremitu, fremitum, fremitus, fremuerunt, fremuit, murmur, murmurabant, murmurabit, murmurantem, murmurantes, murmurantium, murmurare, murmurarent, murmurastis, murmurat, murmurati, murmuratores, murmuraveritis, murmuraverunt, murmuravit, murmuretis, murmuris, muttiet, muttire, mutum, susurrabant, susurrio, susurro. (various references)

grommelen. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "murmur": murmured, murmurer, murmurers, murmuring, murmurous, murmurously, murmurs. (additional references)

Words ending with "murmur": bemurmur. (additional references)

Words containing "murmur": bemurmured, bemurmuring, bemurmurs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Murmur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maamur, makmur, marum, merkur, mermer, mermur, Mirpur, mirum, morimur, mormaor, mormark, mormorar, Mugmer, muirburn, Mumir, mumu, Murgu, murm, murmer, murmor, Murnau, murzuk, Normura, Nurnburg, Umruh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mumu, murr.

-3 letters: mum, rum, umm.

-4 letters: mm, mu, um.

+1 letter: murmurs.

+2 letters: bemurmur, murmured, murmurer.

+3 letters: bemurmurs, murmurers, murmuring, murmurous.

+4 letters: bemurmured.

+5 letters: bemurmuring, murmurously.

4D 75 72 6D 75 72

⁼

--    ..-    .-.    --    ..-    .-.

01001101 01110101 01110010 01101101 01110101 01110010

&#77 &#117 &#114 &#109 &#117 &#114

004D 0075 0072 006D 0075 0072

478784798784