Woof is the conventional representation in the English language of the barking of a dog. As with other examples of onomatopoeia or imitative sounds, other cultures "hear" the dog's barks differently and represent them in their own ways. Some of the equivalents of "woof" in other European and Asian languages are as follows:
* English - woof, woof; ruff, ruff; arf, arf (large dogs and also the sound of sea lions); yap, yap (small dogs); bow-wow
* Albanian - ham, ham
* Arabic - hau, hau; how how (هو هو)
* Armenian - haf, haf
* Basque - au-au, txau-txau (small dogs), zaunk-zaunk (large dogs) and jau-jau (old dogs)
* Bulgarian - bau-bau (бау-бау); jaff, jaff (джаф-джаф)
* Catalan - bau, bau
* Chinese, Cantonese - wow, wow (汪汪)
* Chinese, Mandarin - wang, wang
* Croatian - vau, vau
* Czech - haf, haf
* Danish - vov, vov
* Dutch - waf, waf; woef, woef (phonetically equivalent to woof woof)
* Esperanto - boj, boj
* Estonian - auh, auh
* Finnish - hau, hau; vuh, vuh
* French - ouah, ouah; ouaf, ouaf
* German - wuff, wuff; wau, wau
* Greek - ghav, ghav (γαβ γαβ)
* Hebrew - hav, hav
* Hindi - bho, bho
* Hungarian - vau, vau
* Icelandic - voff, voff
* Indonesian - guk, guk
* Irish - amh-amh
* Italian - bau, bau
* Japanese - wan, wan (ワンワン)
* Korean - meong, meong (mung mung) (멍멍) [mʌŋmʌŋ]
* Latvian - vau, vau
* Lithuanian - au, au
* Norwegian - voff, voff
* Persian - vogh, vogh
* Polish - hau, hau
* Portuguese - au, au; ão-ão (nasal diphthong); béu-béu (toddler language); cain-cain (whining)
* Romanian - ham, ham or hau, hau
* Russian - gav, gav (гав-гав)
* Serbian - av, av
* Slovak - haf, haf or hau, hau
* Slovenian - hov, hov
* Spanish - guau-guau; jau, jau
* Swedish - voff, voff; vov, vov
* Tagalog - ow ow
* Thai - hoang, hoang
* Turkish - hav, hav
* Ukrainian - гав гав, hau hau; дзяв дзяв, dzyau dzyau (small dog)
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