Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is he formation of words that are imitative of natural sounds. Examples of English words produced by this process are meow (for the sound of a cat) and boom (for the sound of bomb explosion). Onomatopoeic words may differ across languages, depending largely on differences in phonetic resources and speakers’ perceptions. For example, the sound of a rooster in English is cock-a-doodle-doo while it is ek-i-ek-ek in Thai