Dictionaries › Romanian

urla

Pronunciation: /urˈla/

“urla” is a Romanian word. Its meaning in English:

verb

  1. to yell, roar, howl, bawl

In Romanian

  1. (v.intranz.) (despre oameni și animale) a scoate urlete specifice.
  2. (v.intranz. și tranz.) (p.anal.) (despre oameni) a vorbi cu tonul foarte ridicat; a striga, a țipa; a plânge cu hohote; a cânta foarte tare (și neplăcut pentru auz).
  3. (v.intranz.) (fig.) (despre o colectivitate umană) a clocoti, a fremăta, a se agita.
  4. (v.intranz.) (despre vânt, viscol, ape etc.: la pers. 3) a produce zgomote specifice, puternice; a vâjâi, a vui.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ululāre, through Vulgar Latin ūrulāre, ultimately from a reduplicated Proto-Indo-European imitative root.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “urla” there

More Romanian words

About this dictionary

The Romanian dictionary on Glottosphere has 92,463 entries with a page. Browse the Romanian dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Romanian are from the Romanian Wiktionary, under the same licence.