croak
意味
- (蛙・烏などの)カーカー(ガーガー)という鳴き声;(人の)しわがれ声
- (蛙・烏などが)カーカー(ガーガー)と鳴く
- (不吉な感じで)しわがれ声で話す
- (特に)〈不満なこと〉を低いしわがれ声で話す
例文
Let's return when the frog croaks.
カエルが鳴いたら帰ろう。
Can you hear the frogs croaking?
カエルの鳴き声が聞こえますか？
Can you hear frogs croaking?
カエルの鳴き声が聞こえますか？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.