| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Dies war, so raunte man, der mitfühlende Geist des Gerichtsangestellten, der im Labyrinth des Archivs umging. | People murmured that this was the ghost of the court clerk, a compassionate spirit who haunted the maze of archives. |
| Und Jona, erschöpft und zerschlagen,... ..seine Ohren wie zwei Muscheln,... ..noch immer vom Ozean raunend,... | And Jonah... bruised and beaten... his ears like two seashells... still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean... |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | خر | Danish | mumle |
| Dutch | morren | English | murmur |
| Estonian | pahisema,rümama | Faroese | mutla, mølma |
| Finnish | supista | Greek | μουντζώνω, μουρμουρίζω, μουσκλιάζω, μουχλιάζω, μπάζω, μπαϊλντίζω, μπαμπακιάζω, μπανιαρίζω, μπανίζω, μπαρουτιάζω, μπατιρίζω, μπατσίζω, μπαφιάζω, μπεγλερίζω, μπεζερίζω, μπεκρουλιάζω, μπεμπεκίζω |
| Hungarian | mormol | Italian | mormorare |
| Lithuanian | šlamėti | Macedonian | мрмори, мумла |
| Norwegian | murre | Polish | pomrukiwać, szemrać, szmerać |
| Portuguese | murmurar | Romanian | murmura |
| Russian | роптать | Spanish | murmurar, musitar |
| Swedish | porla | Turkish | çağıldamak |
| Vietnamese | xì xầm |