If You Ever Wondered How Roosters Sound In Different Languages, Here Are 13 Answers From People Around The World
By hoK leahciM
Producer’s note: Someone on Quora asked: In your language, what is the name of the sound a rooster makes? Here are some of the best answers that’s been pulled from the thread.
1. Diana Crețu
Romanian: Cucurigu
To pronounce, read only the bolded part:
Cuckoo-trip-goo
2. Janelle Alicia Monroy
English: cock-a-doodle-doooooo!
3. André Müller
The German rooster (Hahn) says: kikeriki, which is pronounced like “kicker-ree-KEY”.
The verb for his shouting is krähen.
4. Pedram Moallemian
Farsi aka Persian:
قوقولى قوقو
ghoo-ghoo-lee ghoo-ghoo
5. Jzan Lo
In Tagalog it is: Tilaok.
(Not “tilawk” but “tila-ok”)
6. Shubham Thakur
In Hindi & Marathi it is simply “kuk du ku.”
7. Mikhail Kotykhov
Roosters around the world speak the same language, right?
But we have so much differences when we say the same thing.
Russian: ku-ka-re-KU
8. Thomas Tydal
Swedish: kuckeliku [kuh-cae-lee-queue]
9. Bonan Wang
Chinese: wo-wo-wo… [repeat as necessary]
喔喔喔～～
10. C (Selva) R.Selvakumar
In Tamil it is kokkarakkō (கொக்கரக்கோ).
11. Lưu Vĩnh Phúc
In Japanese it’s kokekokko with the last o is a long vowel (コケコッコー)
12. Cristopher Moreira da Silva
[Brazillian] Portuguese here. It is “Cocoricó”
13. Arnold Chamove
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhUzAwDEz4&w=420&h=315]French = Cook a rie kee!