yell

See also: ye'll and Yell

English

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

(intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
(transitive) to convey by shouting
He yelled directions to the party from the car.

To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

shout (verb)

Arabic: صَاحَ‎‎ (ṣāḥa)
Armenian: գոռալ (hy) (goṙal), բղավել (hy) (błavel)
Aromanian: urlu, aurlu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 叫喊 (zh) (jiàohǎn), 叫 (zh) (jiào)
Czech: řvát (cs), ječet (cs)
Dutch: schreeuwen (nl)
Esperanto: kriegi (eo)
Faroese: rópa
Finnish: huutaa (fi)
French: crier (fr), hurler (fr)
Friulian: urlâ, vosâ
Galician: berrar (gl), golear (gl), bracar, barullar (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: schreien (de)
Greek: ωρύομαι (el) (orýomai), ουρλιάζω (el) (ourliázo), κραυγάζω (el) (kravgázo), σκούζω (el) (skoúzo)
Hebrew: צָרַח‎‎ (tsaráḥ)
Hindi: चिल्लाना (hi) (cillānā)
Hungarian: ordít (hu), kiáltozik
Icelandic: hrópa (is), öskra, gala

yell (plural yells)

A shout.
A phrase to be shouted.
- 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)
  After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

yell (not comparable)

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