Words for cat in other languages

French
chat

Latin
felida(e)

Spanish/Portuguese
gato (male)
gata (female)

Portuguese for "tomcat"
gattaff

Italian
gatto

Yiddish
katalog

Esperanto
kato

German
katze

Turkish
kedi

Russian
koshka

Chinese
mao

Japanese
neko

Russian
olena

Swahili
paka

Icelandic
kottur

Saudi Arabian
biss

Ugandan
paka

Polish
kot

Romanian
pisca

Swedish
katt

Korean
ko-yang-i

Armenian
katu

Hungarian
cica
Hebrew
KHaTooL' (male) or KHa'TooLaH' (female)


This is kind of interesting. It would be even more so if I actually knew how to pronounce any of this.

:eek: WoW I think you just about covered them all.. So how is guchie uchie mume meow weow :D ..

Where is the DUTCH word for cat???

Lol, here it is! We actually have 2 words for it: "kat" or "poes" :)

Wow, that's so interesting! So many words that all mean the same, beautiful, loveable creature :D

The Found Cats and I are pleased to know that Cats are so international that when we travel with The Pet Angel Army we will have Cat Friends all over the World!!

I love my Koshkas! (Yes, I'm Russian)

The Czech word, kočka is similar to Polish and Russian. A kitten is a kočička (the č is pronounced like the sound "tch" - think "catch" in English). You got it - I'm Czech, Polish and Ukrainian.

My family is 100 percent hungarian and i thought cat in hungary was Muchka I dont know how to spell it but it sounds like that...

And the danish is.... kat. :) As for a kitten, it's killing. Foreign people who come and live in Denmark can get quite mixed up with al these new words - killing = kitten, kylling = chicken and kælling = bitch. Better learn those straight away! :eek:

Very interesting! :)

Kirsten

German "Katze" is the generic word but a boycat would be called Kater ;)

... and a kitten would be "Kätzchen" (Now try to pronounce this! LOL ;) )

Kirsten

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Originally Posted by Barbara

German "Katze" is the generic word but a boycat would be called Kater ;)

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He he, I forgot that one! A male cat is also "KATER" in Dutch!!!
And in fact, the word "POES" is only used for females, and also "KATTIN" :)

[QUOTE=sumbirdy]Italian
gatto
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depends on whether it is male female singular or plural. There is also a different word for kitty.

Male singular = gatto - pronounced - gat toh
male plural = gatti - pronounced - gat ty
female singular = gatta - pronounced - gat tah
female plural = gatte - pronounced - gat tay

Kitty male = micio - pronounced - meech oh
kitty female = micia - pronounced - meech ah

and these refer to cats not kittens.

Many differences in italian to explain one thing. LOL
And I am only learning yet. EEK Help

Great thread BTW...what a neat idea.