English
WOTD – 9 April 2009
Etymology
From German jodeln.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjəʊ.dəl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈjoʊ.dəl/
- Rhymes: -əʊdəl
Verb
yodel (third-person singular simple present yodels, present participle (UK) yodelling or (US) yodeling, simple past and past participle (UK) yodelled or (US) yodeled)
- (transitive and intransitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.
Derived terms
Translations
to sing in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto
Noun
yodel (plural yodels)
- An act of yodelling.
- A song incorporating yodelling.
Translations
song
- Arabic: يودلية
- Bulgarian: йодел m (jodel), айларипи n (ajlaripi)
- Catalan: iòdel m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 約德爾 / 约德尔 (zh) (yuēdé'ěr), 約德爾唱法 / 约德尔唱法 (yuēdé'ěr chàngfǎ)
- Czech: jódlovačka f, jódlování n
- Danish: jodling c
- Esperanto: jodlado
- Estonian: joodeldamine, joodeldus
- Finnish: jodlaus (fi)
- French: yodel (fr) m, jodel (fr) m, iodel m
- German: Jodler (de) m, Jodeln n
- Greek: λαρυγγισμός (el) m (laryngismós)
- Hungarian: jódli (hu)
- Irish: geoidil f
- Italian: jodel (it) m, canto tirolese m
- Japanese: ヨーデル (yōderu)
- Korean: 요들 (yodeul)
- Latvian: jodelēt
- Lithuanian: jodliavimas
- Norwegian: jodling
- Polish: jodłowanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: tirolesa (pt) f, canto tirolês m, iodelei m, tirolês (pt) m
- Russian: йодль (ru) m (jodlʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: jodlanje n
- Spanish: canción al estilo tirolés f, canto a la tirolesa m
- Swedish: joddling (sv) c, joddel (sv) n
- Vietnamese: hát yodel
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