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Word that stands in for a sound effect or noise?

Dont care what language its in

Plop!

Falling sound or champagne cork flying off. Very plosive

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[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I've always been partial to poit

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Gotta love the old Mad magazine features!

[โ€“] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago
[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

Tintinabulation!

It's not as direct an onomatopoeia as your example, but it so perfectly encapsulates the experience of hearing the bells, bells, bells, that it counts imo

[โ€“] nore@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

ใƒ”ใ‚ซใƒ”ใ‚ซ (Pika-pika) is a japanese onomatopoeia for blinking, I like it because it's similar to the Portuguese blinking onomatopoeia: Pisca-pisca.

[โ€“] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't realise blinking made a noise

[โ€“] nore@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

I confused onomatopoeia with mimetic... (-.-')

[โ€“] tunetardis@piefed.ca 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

This one's Japanese (which has a lot of onomatopoeia btw), but ki-ki-ki is the sound of a violin being played badly. I put my poor family through a lot of that when I was taking lessons as a kid. I could hear my aunts in the background saying "mata ki-ki-ki yatteru." That's basically Japanese for "there he goes sawing away again".

[โ€“] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO

[โ€“] danglybits27@sh.itjust.works 9 points 22 hours ago

"Meow"

It's a perfect description of the sound and has a very similar spelling through a bunch of different languages

[โ€“] celeste@kbin.earth 3 points 18 hours ago
[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 17 hours ago
[โ€“] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago
[โ€“] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

"guru guru" in Japanese means to turn or spin round and round.

[โ€“] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

In German, the sound that pigeons make.

[โ€“] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

Like the Windmill guru