burp

n.

1. A belch.
2. A brief sharp sound: the burp of antiaircraft fire.

v., burped, burp·ing, burps.

v.intr.

1. To belch.
2. To make brief sharp sounds: "Radio noises burped from the front of the cabin" (Jonathan Kellerman).

v.tr.
To cause (a baby) to expel gas from the stomach, as by patting the back after feeding.

[Imitative.]

A belch, or emission of gas from the mouth. This onomatopoeic word — meant to sound like a belch — was first recorded in American speech in 1932. There are also verbs both intransitive and transitive: ‘At the hot springs the mud bubbles and burps, ’ (Spectator) and ‘In the USA babies are burped during and at the end of feeds’ (The Lancet).

Doctors may include burping in the term flatulence, and for a burp may use the old word ‘eructation’: ‘The savour of his meate by eructation ascendeth’ (Elyot 1533). Because the burps usually come from the stomach, they often bring with them the smell and taste of partly digested food. This is why carnivores may have very pungent breath, and why cows belch methane.

The gas emitted is mostly air, sometimes swallowed by people eating or drinking nervously, or in a hurry; also by pregnant women, and by others trying to relieve the discomfort of nausea or heartburn. However, burps of other gases can be produced; for example, eating bicarbonate of soda to relieve heartburn causes a chemical reaction with acid in the stomach or oesophagus, and produces burps of carbon dioxide. Carbonated drinks can generate spectacular carbon dioxide belches.

— Adam Hart-Davis

(bûrp)
n.

Noisy expulsion of gas from the stomach through the mouth.

v., burped, burp·ing, burps.

1. To expel gas from the stomach through the mouth.
2. To cause a baby to expel gas from the stomach, as by patting the back after feeding.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth
  Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation

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The verb burp has one meaning:

Meaning #1: expel gas from the stomach
  Synonyms: bubble, belch, eruct

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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - bøvse, gylpe
v. tr. - få til at bøvse
n. - bøvs, gylp

Nederlands (Dutch)
een boer laten, boer

Français (French)
v. intr. - roter, faire un renvoi
v. tr. - faire faire son rot ou son renvoi (à un bébé)
n. - rot, renvoi

Deutsch (German)
v. - rülpsen, aufstoßen, ein Bäuerchen machen
n. - Rülpser, Bäuerchen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ρεύομαι
n. - ρέψιμο

Italiano (Italian)
ruttare, rutto

Português (Portuguese)
v. - arrotar, fazer (bebê) eructar
n. - arroto (m)

Русский (Russian)
отрыгнуть, отрыжка

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - emitir eructos o regüeldos
v. tr. - eructar, regoldar
n. - eructo

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - rapa
n. - rapning, rap

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
打嗝, 使...打嗝, 饱嗝儿

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 打嗝
v. tr. - 使...打嗝
n. - 飽嗝兒, 打嗝

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 트림하다
v. tr. - ~에게 트림을 하게 하다
n. - 트림

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - げっぷ
v. - げっぷをする, …にげっぷをさせる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) تجشأ (الاسم) تجشؤ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮גיהק‬
v. tr. - ‮גרם לתינוק לגהק ע"י טפיחה על גבו‬
n. - ‮גיהוק‬

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