{"id":23349,"date":"2024-04-05T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23349"},"modified":"2024-04-06T21:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T21:44:24","slug":"mrs-rumbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23349","title":{"rendered":"Mr(s) Rumbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that one way to say thunder in Japanese is <strong>\u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d\u69d8<\/strong> (gorogoro sama) or literally &#8220;Mr(s) Rumbling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/gorogoro.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Mr(s) Rumbling (\u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d\u69d8)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d \/ \u30b4\u30ed\u30b4\u30ed<\/strong> (gorogoro) is one of the many Japanese onomatopoeic \/ mimetic words that means rumbling (of thunder, one&#8217;s stomach, etc), grumbling, growling, purring, rolling  (of sth large and heavy), tumbling, all over the place, everywhere, commonly, in great numbers, idly, lazily, slothfully, or the uncomfortable feeling of have a foreign substance in one&#8217;s eye, stomach, etc. [<a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/%20%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AD\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of how it&#8217;s used include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u80c3\u304c\u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d\u97f3\u3092\u305f\u3066\u307e\u3059\u3002 (i ga gorogoro oto o tatemasu) = my stomach is rumbling<\/li>\n<li>\u5bb6\u3067\u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d\u3059\u308b\u306e\u3092\u3084\u3081\u3066\u3001\u4f55\u304b\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3092\u898b\u3064\u3051\u306a\u3055\u3044\u3002 (ie de gorogoro suru no o yamete, nani ka suru koto o mitsukenasai) = stop being lazy and find something to do<\/li>\n<li>\u76ee\u304c\u30b4\u30ed\u30b4\u30ed\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002 (me ga gorogoro shimasu) = my eyes feel gritty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other words for thunder in Japanese include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u96f7 (kaminari), which also means lightning, a thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger or a fit of anger. The kanji is consists of rain (\u96e8) over a rice field \/ paddy (\u7530).<\/li>\n<li>\u9cf4\u795e (narukami) or literally  &#8220;sound of god&#8221;:  \u9cf4 (naru) = chirp, cry, bark, sound, ring, echo, honk, and \u795e (kami) = god, deity, divinty, spirit, incredible, fantastic, amazing, thunder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m going to Scotland tomorrow for a week of learning Scottish Gaelic songs at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig, the Gaelic college on the Isle of Skye.  Looking forward to it. During this time, there&#8217;ll be few, if any, up-dates to this site, blog posts or podcasts, and I probably won&#8217;t have time to answer all your emails. Things will be back to normal after I get back.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that one way to say thunder in Japanese is \u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d\u69d8 (gorogoro sama) or literally &#8220;Mr(s) Rumbling&#8221;. \u3054\u308d\u3054\u308d \/ \u30b4\u30ed\u30b4\u30ed (gorogoro) is one of the many Japanese onomatopoeic \/ mimetic words that means rumbling (of thunder, one&#8217;s stomach, etc), grumbling, growling, purring, rolling (of sth large and heavy), tumbling, all over the place, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23354,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions\/23354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}