For a while now, Iโve wanted to start keeping a log of interesting onomatopoeia I come across in my reading. I was about to start looking for a suitable notebook, when it dawned on me that it would be way more fun as a group project. So I encourage everyone to post here any onomatopoeia they come across in the wild. If we collect enough, this might even end up being an informal onomatopoeia glossary of sorts.
Iโm thinking it would be nice to format like this (but other ideas are welcome):
onomatopoeia word
Example sentence containing it (the phrase in which you found the word, with the word in question in bold)
Spoilered translation, with the translated onomatopoeia word in bold.
You can read more about onomatopoeia in this Tofugu article!
Iโve added an index and made this post a wiki, so that everyone who contributes onomatopoeia with an example sentence can add it to the index. Please observe alphabetical order as much as possible, and only link to posts that are formatted like the example above (onomatopoeia, real example sentence, optional translation). Itโs okay to add another instance of a word already posted, this way we have more example sentences - not to mention that sometimes one word can have several meanings and usages. In such a case, please add a number next to the existing word in the index, and add your link to the number (see ใใฃใใ as an example).
The purpose of this thread is not to list onomatopoeia that is not listed elsewhere, just to collect any onomatopoeia we come across in our reading or listening, in the context itโs found. You donโt need to wait until you find onomatopoeia without a translation to post.
By the way, Iโm noticing that itโs sometimes hard to include the whole sentence or phrase the onomatopoeia word is in, as the sentence may be too long or too spoilerish (Iโve had this problem with example sentences from ๅ่ฝใก, it was nearly impossible to post any of them, as they were full of names and way too long). I guess some simplifying is fine, or even reducing the context phrase to just the words immediately surrounding the onomatopoeia word.
In the books Iโm reading. Thatโs the whole point, to find these words in context.
The translation is my own, so very much sub-par, but I hope it serves to illustrate what the onomatopoeia word stands for, at least.
