| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| 私を見て、吠えた。 | He looked at me and barked. |
| 奴らは 絶えず来て 吠えて 脅し取る | Those guys come in there all the time, grabbing and hollering. |
| わめき 吠え 声の大きさでは記録越え 私はアリーナの座席で | She ramped up the volume with a series of shrieks, yodels, bellows and bleats to a record-breaking 103 decibels. |
| 彼女は大声を上げ 叫び 歌い わめき 吠え 声の大きさでは記録越え | She ramped up the volume with a series of shrieks, yodels, bellows and bleats to a record-breaking 103 decibels. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | قلف,نبح | Catalan | lladrar |
| Danish | gø, halse | Dutch | blaffen |
| English | bark | Faroese | goyggja |
| Finnish | haukkua, räkyttää | German | anbellen, bellen |
| Greek | αλυχτώ, γαβγίζω, γαϊτανώνω, γαμπρίζω, γανιάζω | Hebrew | נבח |
| Hungarian | csahol, ugat | Icelandic | gelta, gjamma |
| Indonesian | menggonggong, menyalak | Latvian | riet |
| Lithuanian | loti | Macedonian | лае |
| Polish | odkorować, okorować, przeszczekać, szczekać, szczeknąć, szczękać | Portuguese | ladrar, latir |
| Quechua | ch'aqway | Romanian | lătra |
| Russian | гавкать, лаять | Spanish | ladrar |
| Swedish | skälla | Thai | หมาเห่าเครื่องบิน, เห่า |
| Turkish | havlamak, ürümek | Vietnamese | sủa |