Meanings
- pluralrareplural of onomatopoeia
Al-Khwarizmi, who follows Al-Farabi's definitions slavishly, introduces but two onomatopoeiae tan and tanna to represent relatively, it would seem, ˘ and ¯.
1943, Henry George Farmer, Saʾadyah Gaon on the Influence of Music, London: A. Probsthain, page 761 more example
Nor can I approve of the term employed by Torrend : onomatopoetic substantives. Substantives they are certainly not, as they pertain to none of the eight classes and have nothing of the nature of nouns. On the other hand, only a part of them are real onomatopoeiae, i. e. words resembling the sound made by the thing of which they are the names.
1912, Henri Alexandre Junod, The life of a South African tribe (Neuchatel: Attinger) p. 146 fn (1)
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