a sound that reaches the ear: the noise a thing makes, or the voice of someone speaking.
Aramaic gets by with one word where English needs two. It names the noise a thing makes and it names the sound of a living voice, and the setting decides which English word a translator reaches for. All seven of its appearances sit in the Aramaic chapters of Daniel, so the whole life of this word plays out inside one book.
Five of those uses are about noise. Four of them belong to a single repeated scene, the royal band in Daniel 3, where the blast of horn, pipe, and harp is the signal to fall down and worship the golden statue. The wording is repeated almost identically each time, which turns the sound itself into the pressure point of the story: hear it, and you have to choose. The fifth, in Daniel 7:11, names the racket of the boastful words a small horn keeps speaking, and it is that noise that pulls the prophet's attention toward the beast's destruction.
The other two point at a speaker rather than a thing. In Daniel 4:31 a voice falls out of heaven while the king is still congratulating himself, and in Daniel 6:20 the king calls down into the lion pit in a voice thick with grief. Both do exactly what the Hebrew word for voice and sound (קוֹל) does across the rest of the Old Testament. The two are the same ancient word in two closely related languages, and the Aramaic one simply has far fewer verses to work with.