quarren

== German == === Etymology === 18th century, borrowed from Low German quarren, from Middle Low German quarren, querren, quēren (“to purr, hum, coo, growl”), from Old Saxon *kwer(r)an, from Proto-West Germanic *kwer(ʀ)an. Cognate with Old High German queran (“to moan, lament, sigh”). Further origin uncertain. Perhaps onomatopoeic, or alternatively a byform of Proto-Germanic *kerzaną (“to creak”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkvaʁən/ === Verb === quarren (weak, third-person singular present quarrt, past tense quarrte, past participle gequarrt, auxiliary haben) (dated) to make rough, creaky, squawky sounds Synonyms: knarren, knarzen, krähen, plärren, quaken, quäken, schnarren, schnattern ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Further reading ==== “quarren” in Duden online “quarren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)