Animal Sounds - As Heard By Thais......

[brahmburgers]

dog - hong hong โอ่ง ๆ

pig - ood ood อู๊ด ๆ

rooster - eeh eeh ek ek

cow - maw มอ ๆ

lamb - bae bae

monkey - geeap เจี๊ยก ๆ

frog - op op อ๊บ ๆ

snake - shshsh

....got any others?

[Neeranam]

Always makes me laugh hearing a Thai rooster - sounds nothing like cockadoodle doo.

[sbk]

eung aahng -- bullfrog--it also called eung ahng (at least where I live) .

[Alf Witt]

ooot - not an owl but a seabird that makes a sound like (you guessed it) "oot".

[meadish_sweetball]

Here's a great site with kids from all over the world giving their version of what different animals sound like: bzzzpeek

There is no Thai there as yet, so anyone with Thai speaking children might want to submit theirs?

[Alf Witt]

Not sounds made by animals but I am always amused by the very descriptive Thai words for vomit and hiccough - "owat" and "saa ook".

[kayo]

Here's a great site with kids from all over the world giving their version of what different animals sound like: bzzzpeek

There is no Thai there as yet, so anyone with Thai speaking children might want to submit theirs?

That is one brilliant website! Thanks

[bina]

a baby bufffalo does not make a deep heavy sound but says: ayeh! ayeh! using a high pitched voice so says anon.

[NaiGreg]

gaab gaab gaab (duck)

[In the Rai!]

Elephant = pran pran (with rising tone)

[brahmburgers]

I didn't know a water buffalo calf says; 'ayeh ayeh!' but that's exactly what I said the other day when a college boy nearly ran me over with his motorbike while coming out of nowhere on the wrong side of the street. About 20 onlookers chuckled at the alarmed noise I made when shouting at him.

speaking of water buffalo ('Kwai' in Thai), I was told this story by a Thai teacher: A farang teacher was on a break at primary school and was annoyed by all the noise in the hall, so he shouted Quiet! which came out sounding like Kwai-et! which got a raucus round of laughter from the kids - because 'kwai' is also slang for dick or <deleted>.

[meadish_sweetball]

Elephant = pran pran (with rising tone)

Are you sure of the tone ITR? When I hear Thais do the imitation, it definitely sounds like the falling tone.

EDIT: Sorry, you're right. It does take the rising tone, but wifey still, for some reason, pronounces it with a falling tone...

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[Grover]

I think we all know this, but a crow says "gaa gaa" กา ๆ

This is a funny thread. As one of my Thai friends would say, "very baby".

Speaking of babies, what sound are they supposed to make ? goo goo gaa gaa ??

[Rikker]

speaking of water buffalo ('Kwai' in Thai), I was told this story by a Thai teacher: A farang teacher was on a break at primary school and was annoyed by all the noise in the hall, so he shouted Quiet! which came out sounding like Kwai-et! which got a raucus round of laughter from the kids - because 'kwai' is also slang for dick or <deleted>.

The word is not the same as ควาย khwaai "buffalo." It is ควย khuai. The pronunciation is similar, though. And I was surprised to find it with the same meaning in the earliest Thai-English dictionary, from the 1840s. This word's been around for a while!

[Nomar]

A friend of mine used to work on the Virtual Hilltribe Museum and came up with this comparison of chicken sounds:

Chickens

[pumpuiman]

Always makes me laugh hearing a Thai rooster - sounds nothing like cockadoodle doo.

My wife laughs at me...but the village roosters sound to me like "khop khun mak krap"

I swear....have a listen and think about it!!

[Grover]

Another one is the sound a baby chicken makes, jeab. เจี๊ยบ

Its also used as a nickname for ladies.

[sbk]

duck -- kap kap (gor gai, mai tree, sara ah, bor baimai) -- sorry no thai letters on my laptop

toukay -- tup gay

cat - miew (weird how that one is the same everywhere)