murmuring

English

Verb

murmuring

1. present participle and gerund of murmur
   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:

     Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

Noun

murmuring (countable and uncountable, plural murmurings)

1. A sound that murmurs.

   the murmurings of trees in the wind

2. A complaint against something.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:

     Do all things without murmurings and disputings.

   • 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:

     When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.

Translations

a complaint against something

• Finnish: nurina (fi)
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (birōdeins)
• Greek:

  Ancient: γογγυσμός m (gongusmós)

• Irish: cnáimhseáil f
• Italian: brontolamento m, lamentele (it) f pl
• Latin: gannītus m, murmurātiō f
• Manx: gaccan, trughaneys f, tallagh m
• Plautdietsch: Jemurr n