how to say “a plug” or “a traffic jam” in Hebrew
פקק
Onomatopoeia exists in every language, most likely. It’s those words that sound like the sound they make. For example birds chirp – and a chirp makes a chirping sound. Ducks quack, tight air whizzes by, etc.
Hebrew is no exception. The Hebrew word for a plug or a cork – that which makes the pkak sound when removed quickly from that which it is plugging – is פְּקַק (pkahk). The word is also used colloquially to mean traffic jam, a situation where the road is plugged or corked.
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