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@onomatopoeia

An /avyaktAnukaraNa (onomatopoeia) is whatever word imitates (anukaroti ) an inarticulate (avyakta ) sound.

As for instance. this is the sound a crow makes. It sounds vaguely like kAkAkAk .

Now, if you say —

kAkiti karoti 'it makes "kA kA "',

then that kAk word is an imitation of the inarticulate sound that the crow makes. But if you say

ayaG kAkaH "this is a crow",

then kAkaH is a regular word, not a sound imitation.