La Palabra Del Día: "ulular"
ulular ( oo-loo-lahr' )
verb ( to howl; to hoot; to wail )
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1: El búho se volteó y me ululó.
The owl turned its head and hooted at me.
2: Al olfatear la liebre, los coyotes empezaron a ulular.
When they scented the hare, the coyotes began to howl.
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Una multitud de personas,incluyendo mujeres, llorando y ululando, siguió a Jesús hasta el Calvario.
A multitude of people, including women,weeping and wailing, followed Jesus to Calvary.
Cualquier niño sabe que un pato grazna y un búho ulula.
Any child knows that a duck quacks and an owl hoots.
Los dos oyeron el búho ululando mientras el niño llevaba a su hermana menor al bosque para ir a la casa del árbol mágica. No leí todos los libros en esta serie, los que estaban disponibles en la biblioteca local, antes de que mi español mejorara lo suficiente para leer cosas más complejas, pero leí muchos, y aprendí los sonidos de muchos animales haciéndolo.
The two heard the owl hooting as the boy led his little sister into the woods to go to the magical tree house. I did not read all the books in this series, which were available in the local library, before my Spanish improved to the point of reading more complex things, but I read a lot of them, and learned the sounds of a lot of animals doing so.
Puede ser intimidante para escuchar coyotes ululando fuera de la cerca en la noche.
It can be intimidating to hear coyotes howling outside the fence at night.
Se trata de un libro , donde hay un búho mudo, pero espero que el fin de la historia el pobre búho vaya a aprender de ulular.
This is a book where there is a dumb owl, but I hope that at the end of history the poor owl will learn hooting.
Las mujeres en África y otras paises a menudo ulular
cuando se están celebrando algo especial como Broda o un funeral.
The women in Africa and other countries often hoot (ulular)
when they are celebrating something like a wedding or a funeral.
Ulular de Latin, ulular, es un sonido largo vacilante, y agudo vocal parecido a un aullido con una calidad trino. Se produce por la emisión de una voz aguda acompañada con una vuelta rápida y adelante movimiento de la lengua y la úvula.
Ululation , from Latin-Ulular. is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue and the uvula
Si no hubiera oído por el sonido del búho ululando en la noche, no habría encontradolo.
If he had not listened for the sound of the owl hooting in the night, he would not have found it.
