





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

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









