Thread:ゆーたん/@comment-24520859-20151129015216/@comment-25114063-20151130131601

I do not think there's a Japanese equivalent of 'arr' ...

I have looked through five dictionaries (two in real life, one online), and also called up an old professor of mine (I'm also curious to know if there is one), but I do not know if an exact term exists, seeing as Japanese only had these gentlemen .

I am not familiar enough with archaic Japanese terms and conventions (especially 16th-century ones) to give a valid 'legit' answer. I swear I paid attention in class...

There are some interjections such as お’ら or ひゃはぁー which may suffice, although I'm of the opinion that 'arr' or perhaps 'y'arr' cannot be perfectly translated into Japanese due to the Japanese lacking a Jolly Roger or a Captain Hook, or perhaps a distinctly pirate vocabulary, to which possibly the closest equivalent would be regional dialects present throughout various crews, etc. of a random run of the mill Wakou ship. For a loose equivalent, I considered using Yakuza-slang or perhaps interjections, but I wasn't able to find sources which can be accurate enough to describe said 'arr'.