bellow

See also: Bellow

English

From Middle English belwen, from Old English belgan, bylgan (“to become angry, to swell with rage”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”), whence also belg (“leather bag”), bellan (“to roar”), blāwan (“to blow”). Cognate with German bellen (“to bark”), Russian бле́ять (bléjatʹ, “baa, bleat”).

Compare billow (“wave”), of the same root, also bulge, with related etymology to swelling. Potentially related to bawl, Swedish böl (“bawl”).

bellow (plural bellows)

The bellow of an elk

The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  There was a tap at a door, a bull's bellow from within, and I was face to face with the Professor.

the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise

Bulgarian: мучене (bg) (mučene)
Catalan: rugit (ca), bramul (ca) m
Czech: bučení (cs)
Danish: brøl n
Esperanto: bleko, bleko, muĝo
Finnish: karjunta (fi), mylvintä (fi), ärjyntä (fi), mölähtely (repeating); karjaisu (fi), mylvähdys (fi), ärjäisy (fi), mölähdys (fi) (individual)
Galician: bruído m, brúo m
German: Röhren (de) n, Brüllen n
Ido: bramo (io)
Irish: géim f
Italian: ruggito (it) m
Latin: rudor m
Malayalam: ഗർജനം (ml) (gaṟjanaṁ), അലർച്ച (alaṟcca)
Persian: ژغند (fa) (žaġand)
Romanian: răget (ro) n, muget (ro) n
Russian: рёв (ru) m (rjov)
Spanish: bramido (es) m, berrido (es) m
Swedish: vrål (sv) n, böl (sv) n, bröl n
Turkish: böğürtü (tr)

bellow (third-person singular simple present bellows, present participle bellowing, simple past and past participle bellowed)

To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  the bellowing voice of boiling seas
To shout in a deep voice.
- 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:
  Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.

to make a noise like the deep roar of a large animal

to shout in a deep voice