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.

Romanian: Cucurigu To pronounce, read only the bolded part: Cuckoo-trip-goo

English: cock-a-doodle-doooooo!

The German rooster (Hahn) says: kikeriki, which is pronounced like “kicker-ree-KEY”. The verb for his shouting is krähen.

Farsi aka Persian: قوقولى قوقو ghoo-ghoo-lee ghoo-ghoo

In Tagalog it is: Tilaok. (Not “tilawk” but “tila-ok”)

In Hindi & Marathi it is simply “kuk du ku.”

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

Swedish: kuckeliku [kuh-cae-lee-queue]

Chinese: wo-wo-wo… [repeat as necessary] 喔喔喔～～

In Tamil it is kokkarakkō (கொக்கரக்கோ).

In Japanese it’s kokekokko with the last o is a long vowel (コケコッコー)

[Brazillian] Portuguese here. It is “Cocoricó”

French = Cook a rie kee!

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