The word "cat" in languages around the world

Albanian

macë
Arabic   
kitte
Armenian
katu
Basque
catua
Bulgarian

kotka
Cantonese
Maow
Catalan
gat
Cherokee (Tsalagi)
eesa
Chinese
miu or mau  
Cree
bushi
Czech
kocka
Dutch
kat or poes
Egyptian
 Hieroglyphics for the word "cat" miw
English
cat
Eskimo
pussi
Esperanto
kato
Estonian
kass or kiisu
Ethiopian

domadh
Farsi
gorbe
Filipino
cat or pusa
Finnish
kissa
French
chat
Fula (New Guinea)

gnari
Gaelic
pishyakan / Piscín, cait
German
katti, katze or ket
Greek
gata, gati
Gujarati (India)

biladi
Gypsy
muca
Hawaiian
popoki
Hebrew

cha'tool
Hindi
billi
Hungarian
cica/macska
Icelandic
kottur
Indian
biladi gujarati
Indonesian
kuching, kutjing
Irish
cat
Italian
gatto
Japanese
neko
Kannada (Indian)
bekku
Kmer
chma
Korean


Latin
cattus or felis
Lithuanian
katinas
Malayalam (Indian)
poocha
Malay/Indonesian
kucing
Maltese

qattus
Mayan
miss, miz
Netherlands
kat (male); poes (female)
New Guinea
gnari fula
Norwegian
katt
Pakistani
shimii
Plains Cree Indians
minoos
Polish
kot or gatto
Portuguese
gato
Pusa
cat
Romanian
pisica
Romansch
giat
Russian
koshka (female); kot (male)
Sanskrit
marjara
Serbo-Croatian
macka
Slovak

mačka; muca
Spanish
gato
Swahili
paka
Swedish
katt
Swiss-German
büsi, chatz
Tamil
poonai
Tatalog (Philipino)

pusa
Thai/Vietnamese
meo
Turkish

kedi
Ukrainian

kitska (female); kit (male)
Vietnamese

mèo
Welsh
cath
Yiddish
kats
Zulu
Ikati
Cat


 



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