rumble

See also: Rumble

English

Alternative forms

• rummle, rommle (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome +‎ -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbəl

Interjection

rumble

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

Noun

rumble (plural rumbles)

1. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

   The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.

2. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
   • Charles Dickens

     Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

Translations

low, heavy, continuous sound

• Czech: rachot m, lomoz m, burácení n, dunění (cs) n
• Dutch: rommeling f (thunder)
• Finnish: ryminä, jyrinä (fi), jyry, jytinä (fi), jylinä (fi), jyminä (fi), jymy (fi)
• French: borborygme (fr) m (stomach), gargouillement (fr) m (stomach), grondement (fr) m (thunder)
• German: Poltern n, Rumpeln n, (thunder) Grollen (de) n
• Hungarian: morgás (hu), dörmögés (hu), dörgés (hu), dörmögés (hu)
• Maori: wheoro, pioro, wawā

• Norwegian: rumling c
• Portuguese: ronco (pt) m, ribombo m, sussurro (pt)
• Russian: гро́хот (ru) m (gróxot), громыха́ние (ru) n (gromyxánije), грохота́нье (ru) n (groxotánʹje)
• Swedish: dån (sv) n, buller (sv) n
• Turkish: homurtu (tr), gümbürtü (tr), (thunder) gürleme (tr)
• Walloon: groûlaedje (wa) m, groûlmint (wa) m

street fight or brawl

• Czech: pouliční rvačka f, pouliční bitka f
• Dutch: straatgevecht (nl) n
• Finnish: rähinä, tappelu (fi)
• German: Schlägerei (de) f
• Hungarian: bunyó (hu)

• Portuguese: briga (pt) f
• Russian: сты́чка (ru) f (stýčka), дра́ка (ru) f (dráka), потасо́вка (ru) f (potasóvka)
• Spanish: pelea callejera f, riña (es)
• Swedish: väsen (sv) n, oväsen (sv) n, bråk (sv) n, liv (sv) n
• Turkish: dövüş (tr)

Verb

rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)

1. To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

   If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.

   I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.

2. To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

   The police is going to rumble your hideout.

3. To move while making a rumbling noise.

   The truck rumbled over the rough road.

4. (slang) To fight; to brawl.
5. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
6. (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
   • Spenser

     to rumble gently down with murmur soft

Translations

to make a low pitched noise

• Albanian: gjëmoj (sq)
• Armenian: թնդալ (hy) (tʿndal)
• Czech: rachotit, lomozit, burácet, dunět, hřmět (cs)
• Finnish: jyristä (fi), jymistä, rymistä; kurista (fi) (of stomach)
• French: gronder (fr)
• German: rumpeln (de); (stomach:) knurren (de)
• Hungarian: (stomach:) korog, morog (hu), dörmög (hu)
• Maori: whakarūrū, wheoro, kokō, whēorooro, pioro

• Norwegian: rumle (no)
• Portuguese: roncar (pt)
• Quechua: kunununuy
• Russian: грохота́ть (ru) impf (groxotátʹ), громыха́ть (ru) impf (gromyxátʹ)
• Spanish: retumbar (es); (stomach:) rugir (es)
• Swedish: rumla (sv), kurra (sv), morra (sv), gny (sv)
• Walloon: groûler (wa)
• ǃXóõ: kxʻāa

to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour

• Finnish: ratsata

to move while making a rumbling noise

• Czech: rvát se, servat se
• Finnish: jyristellä (fi), rymistellä (fi), rymistää, rymytä

• Swedish: skramla (sv), skaka (sv), rassla (sv)

to fight, brawl

• Finnish: rähinöidä, ottaa yhteen (fi)
• Hungarian: bunyózik
• Japanese: 怒る (ja) (いかる, ikaru)

• Portuguese: brigar (pt)
• Swedish: rumla (sv), kivas (sv), bråka (sv), leva (sv)

Anagrams

• Blumer, Bulmer, lumber, umbrel