Meanings
- A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.
Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. […] An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.
2011, Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, page 251 more example
Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah" call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.
1983, William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals, page 140
Origin
Imitative.
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rrah. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rrah
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