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id="toc-Pronunciation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_1" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_1"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Etymology 1</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_1-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alternative_forms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternative_forms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.1</span> <span>Alternative forms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alternative_forms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.2</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Derived_terms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.2.1</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Translations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Translations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.2.2</span> <span>Translations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Translations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Verb" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Verb"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.3</span> <span>Verb</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Verb-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Translations_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Translations_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.3.1</span> <span>Translations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Translations_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Etymology 2</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Noun_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.1</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Verb_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Verb_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.2</span> <span>Verb</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Verb_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Etymology 3</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Noun_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.1</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adjective" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.2</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Derived_terms_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.2.1</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anagrams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anagrams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Anagrams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anagrams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Indonesian" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Indonesian"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Indonesian</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Indonesian-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Indonesian subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Indonesian-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Etymology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Verb_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Verb_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Verb</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Verb_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Derived_terms_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.1</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Irish" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Irish"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Irish</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Irish-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Irish subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Irish-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alternative_forms_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternative_forms_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Alternative forms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alternative_forms_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Declension" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Declension"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.1</span> <span>Declension</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Declension-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Derived_terms_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.2</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mutation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mutation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Mutation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mutation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Malay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Malay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Malay</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Malay-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Malay subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Malay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Etymology_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Affixed_terms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Affixed_terms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3.1</span> <span>Affixed terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Affixed_terms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Descendants" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Descendants"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3.2</span> <span>Descendants</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Descendants-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Middle_English" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Middle_English"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Middle English</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Middle_English-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Middle English subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Middle_English-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alternative_forms_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternative_forms_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Alternative forms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alternative_forms_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Synonyms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Synonyms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.1</span> <span>Synonyms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Synonyms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Descendants_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Descendants_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.2</span> <span>Descendants</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Descendants_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.3</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Norman" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norman"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Norman</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Norman-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Norman subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Norman-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Etymology_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Derived_terms_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3.1</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Old_French" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Old_French"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Old French</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Old_French-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Old French subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Old_French-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Noun_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Romanian" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Romanian"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Romanian</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Romanian-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Romanian subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Romanian-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Etymology_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_10"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.3</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_10-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Declension_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Declension_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.3.1</span> <span>Declension</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Declension_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scots" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scots"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Scots</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Scots-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Scots subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Scots-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alternative_forms_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternative_forms_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>Alternative forms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alternative_forms_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.2</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_11" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_11"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.3</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_11-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scottish_Gaelic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scottish_Gaelic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Scottish Gaelic</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Scottish_Gaelic-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Scottish Gaelic subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Scottish_Gaelic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Etymology_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_10"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.1</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_10-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.2</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Noun_12" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_12"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_12-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Declension_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Declension_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3.1</span> <span>Declension</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Declension_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Derived_terms_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3.2</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mutation_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mutation_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.4</span> <span>Mutation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mutation_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.6</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-rup mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-rup.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Aromanian" lang="rup" hreflang="rup" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Armãneashti" data-language-local-name="Aromanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Armãneashti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiZulu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nia mw-list-item"><a href="https://nia.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Nias" lang="nia" hreflang="nia" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Li Niha" data-language-local-name="Nias" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Li Niha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mnw mw-list-item"><a href="https://mnw.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Mon" lang="mnw" hreflang="mnw" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ဘာသာမန်" data-language-local-name="Mon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ဘာသာမန်</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fj mw-list-item"><a href="https://fj.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Fijian" lang="fj" hreflang="fj" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Na Vosa Vakaviti" data-language-local-name="Fijian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Na Vosa Vakaviti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagana Samoa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sg mw-list-item"><a href="https://sg.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Sango" lang="sg" hreflang="sg" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Sängö" data-language-local-name="Sango" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sängö</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="တႆး" data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>တႆး</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᏣᎳᎩ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Walon</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ייִדיש</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://yue.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-diq mw-list-item"><a href="https://diq.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Dimli" lang="diq" hreflang="diq" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="Zazaki" data-language-local-name="Dimli" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Zazaki</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat" title="cat – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="cat" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>中文</span></a></li> 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="mul">cat</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_standard" class="extiw" title="w:International standard">international standards</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 639-2">ISO 639-2</a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 639-3">ISO 639-3</a> <a href="/wiki/language_code" title="language code">language code</a> for </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639:cat" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 639:cat"><b>Catalan</b></a><i>.</i></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/60px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/66px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/88px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div style="margin-left: 60px;">English <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cat" class="extiw" title="w:cat">cat</a></b></div></div><span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cat" class="extiw" title="w:cat">Wikipedia </a></span></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r83974623">.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{font-size:90%;width:250px;padding:4px;text-align:left;background:var(--wikt-palette-paleblue,#f9f9f9);border:var(--border-color-base,#aaa)1px solid;display:flex;flex-direction:row;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .interproject-box>div:first-child{float:none!important;flex:none}.mw-parser-output .interproject-box>div:nth-child(2){margin-left:0.55em!important}body.skin-vector:not(.skin-vector-2022) .mw-parser-output .interproject-box .vector-hide{display:none}body.skin-vector:not(.skin-vector-2022) .mw-parser-output .interproject-box .vector-inline-block{display:inline-block;margin-left:0!important}@media screen and (max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%}}</style> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cat03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Cat03.jpg/220px-Cat03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Cat03.jpg/330px-Cat03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Cat03.jpg/440px-Cat03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1598" /></a><figcaption>A domestic cat (etymology 1, noun, sense 1)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" class="extiw" title="w:British English">UK</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">enPR</a>: <span class="AHD enPR">kăt</span>, <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kæt/</span>, <span class="IPA">[kʰæt]</span>, <span class="IPA">[kʰæʔ]</span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" class="extiw" title="w:British English">UK</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English" class="extiw" title="w:Canadian English">Canada</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kat/</span></li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" class="extiw" title="w:British English">UK</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-semicolon qualifier-semicolon">;</span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><span class="ib-quote qualifier-quote">“</span>a cat<span class="ib-quote qualifier-quote">”</span></i><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="en-uk-a_cat.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/En-uk-a_cat.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/En-uk-a_cat.ogg/En-uk-a_cat.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-uk-a_cat.ogg" title="File:en-uk-a cat.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410" /><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="en-us-cat.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-us-cat.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-us-cat.ogg/En-us-cat.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-us-cat.ogg" title="File:en-us-cat.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410" /><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:Inland Northern American English">Inland Northern American</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="en-us-inlandnorth-cat.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-us-inlandnorth-cat.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/En-us-inlandnorth-cat.ogg/En-us-inlandnorth-cat.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-us-inlandnorth-cat.ogg" title="File:en-us-inlandnorth-cat.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><span class="homophones"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#homophone" title="Appendix:Glossary">Homophones</a>: <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Cat#English" title="Cat">Cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Kat#English" title="Kat">Kat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/khat#English" title="khat">khat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/qat#English" title="qat">qat</a></span></span></li> <li>Hyphenation: <span class="Latn" lang="en">cat</span></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C3%A6t" title="Rhymes:English/æt"><span class="IPA">-æt</span></a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1">Etymology 1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Etymology 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_English">cat</a></i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/catte#Middle_English" title="catte">catte</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/catt#Old_English" title="catt">catt</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">male cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/catte#Old_English" title="catte">catte</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">female cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-West_Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-West Germanic language">Proto-West Germanic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gmw-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/kattu" title="Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kattu">*kattu</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz">*kattuz</a></i>, generally thought to be from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/cattus#Latin" title="cattus">cattus</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">domestic cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> (c. 350, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutilius_Taurus_Aemilianus_Palladius" class="extiw" title="w:Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius">Palladius</a>), from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/catta#Latin" title="catta">catta</a></i> (c. 75 <span style="font-size:85%;">A.D.</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial" class="extiw" title="w:Martial">Martial</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from an <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Afroasiatic languages">Afroasiatic</a></span> language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the <a href="/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fertile_Crescent" title="Fertile Crescent">Fertile Crescent</a> during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago,<sup id="cite_ref-ISample_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISample-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-COttoni_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COttoni-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), especially after they became popular in Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-ISample_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISample-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-COttoni_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COttoni-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, every proposed source word has presented problems. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Pictet" class="extiw" title="w:Adolphe Pictet">Adolphe Pictet</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and many subsequent sources refer to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barabra" class="extiw" title="w:Barabra">Barabra</a> (Nubian) <small>[script needed]</small> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="onw-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kaddîska</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> and "Nouba" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobiin_language" class="extiw" title="w:Nobiin language">Nobiin</a>) <i class="Copt mention" lang="fia"><a href="/wiki/%E2%B2%95%E2%B2%81%E2%B2%87%E2%B2%93%CC%84%E2%B2%A5#Nobiin" title="ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ">ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="fia-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kadīs</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">kadīs</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> as possible sources or cognates,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic" class="extiw" title="w:Arabic">Arabic</a></span> <i class="Arab mention" lang="ar"><a href="/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%A9#Arabic" title="قطة">قِطَّة</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">qiṭṭa</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Qitta_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qitta-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Coptic language">Coptic</a></span> <i class="Copt mention" lang="cop"><a href="/wiki/%CF%A3%E2%B2%81%E2%B2%A9#Coptic" title="ϣⲁⲩ">ϣⲁⲩ</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cop-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">šau</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">tomcat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> suffixed with feminine <i class="Latn mention" lang="egy"><a href="/wiki/-t#Egyptian" title="-t">-t</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but John Huehnergard says "the source [...] was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."<sup id="cite_ref-Qitta_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qitta-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It may be a <a href="/wiki/Wanderwort" title="Wanderwort">Wanderwort</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_S%C3%A1mi" class="extiw" title="w:Northern Sámi">Northern Sami</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="se"><a href="/w/index.php?title=ga%C4%91fe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="gađfe (page does not exist)">gađfe</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">female stoat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> and <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Hungarian language">Hungarian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/h%C3%B6lgy#Hungarian" title="hölgy">hölgy</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">stoat; lady, bride</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Uralic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Uralic language">Proto-Uralic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="urj-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/k%C3%A4%C4%8Fw%C3%A4" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/käďwä">*käďwä</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">female (of a fur animal)</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="NavFrame"> <div class="NavHead" style="text-align: left;">Cognates</div> <div class="NavContent columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="2" style="text-align: left;"> <p>Related to <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" class="extiw" title="w:Scots language">Scots</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="sco"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Scots">cat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language" class="extiw" title="w:West Frisian language">West Frisian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fy"><a href="/wiki/kat#West_Frisian" title="kat">kat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Frisian_language" class="extiw" title="w:North Frisian language">North Frisian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="frr"><a href="/wiki/k%C3%A5t#North_Frisian" title="kåt">kåt</a></i> and <i class="Latn mention" lang="frr"><a href="/wiki/kaat#North_Frisian" title="kaat">kaat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" class="extiw" title="w:Dutch language">Dutch</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/kat#Dutch" title="kat">kat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Danish language">Danish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/kat#Danish" title="kat">kat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Norwegian language">Norwegian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="no"><a href="/wiki/katt#Norwegian" title="katt">katt</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Swedish language">Swedish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/katt#Swedish" title="katt">katt</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German" class="extiw" title="w:Low German">German Low German</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds-de"><a href="/wiki/Katt#German_Low_German" title="Katt">Katt</a></i> and <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds-de"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katte (page does not exist)">Katte</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" class="extiw" title="w:German language">German</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Katze#German" title="Katze">Katze</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German" class="extiw" title="w:Alemannic German">Alemannic German</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gsw"><a href="/wiki/Chatz#Alemannic_German" title="Chatz">Chatz</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Icelandic language">Icelandic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="is"><a href="/wiki/k%C3%B6ttur#Icelandic" title="köttur">köttur</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans" class="extiw" title="w:Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="af"><a href="/wiki/kat#Afrikaans" title="kat">kat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/cattus#Latin" title="cattus">cattus</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" class="extiw" title="w:French language">French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/chat#French" title="chat">chat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_language" class="extiw" title="w:Norman language">Norman</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="nrf"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Norman">cat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language" class="extiw" title="w:Occitan language">Occitan</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="oc"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Occitan">cat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language" class="extiw" title="w:Portuguese language">Portuguese</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/gato#Portuguese" title="gato">gato</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Spanish language">Spanish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/gato#Spanish" title="gato">gato</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Aromanian language">Aromanian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="rup"><a href="/wiki/c%C3%A3tush#Aromanian" title="cãtush">cãtush</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gd"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Scottish_Gaelic">cat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Irish language">Irish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Irish">cat</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_language" class="extiw" title="w:Breton language">Breton</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="br"><a href="/wiki/kazh#Breton" title="kazh">kazh</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language" class="extiw" title="w:Welsh language">Welsh</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/cath#Welsh" title="cath">cath</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Cornish language">Cornish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="kw"><a href="/wiki/kath#Cornish" title="kath">kath</a></i>, as well as <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%84%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" title="κάττα">κάττα</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kátta</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" class="extiw" title="w:Greek language">Greek</a></span> <i class="Grek mention" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CE%B3%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B1#Greek" title="γάτα">γάτα</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="el-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">gáta</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Turkish language">Turkish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="tr"><a href="/wiki/kedi#Turkish" title="kedi">kedi</a></i>, and from the same ultimate source <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Russian language">Russian</a></span> <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82#Russian" title="кот">кот</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kot</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a></span> <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%82#Ukrainian" title="кіт">кіт</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="uk-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kit</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Belarusian language">Belarusian</a></span> <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="be"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82#Belarusian" title="кот">кот</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kot</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Polish language">Polish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/kot#Polish" title="kot">kot</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Kashubian language">Kashubian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="csb"><a href="/wiki/k%C3%B2t#Kashubian" title="kòt">kòt</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Lithuanian language">Lithuanian</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="lt"><a href="/wiki/kat%C4%97#Lithuanian" title="katė">katė</a></i>, and more distantly <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Armenian language">Armenian</a></span> <i class="Armn mention" lang="hy"><a href="/wiki/%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82#Armenian" title="կատու">կատու</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hy-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">katu</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language" class="extiw" title="w:Basque language">Basque</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="eu"><a href="/wiki/katu#Basque" title="katu">katu</a></i>, <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic" class="extiw" title="w:Arabic">Arabic</a></span> <i class="Arab mention" lang="ar"><a href="/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%A9#Arabic" title="قطة">قِطَّة</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">qiṭṭa</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic <i class="Arab mention" lang="ar"><a href="/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B3#Arabic" title="قطوس">قَطُّوس</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">qaṭṭūs</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> (from Berber, probably from Latin). </p> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alternative_forms">Alternative forms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catte#English" title="catte">catte</a></span> <span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">cat</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>, <i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cats#English" title="cats">cats</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li>An animal of the family <span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Felidae#Translingual" title="Felidae">Felidae</a></span>: <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonyms:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/felid#English" title="felid">felid</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/feline#English" title="feline">feline</a></span>, <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">member of the subfamily <span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Pantherinae#Translingual" title="Pantherinae">Pantherinae</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pantherine#English" title="pantherine">pantherine</a></span>, <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">technically, all members of the genus <span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Panthera#Translingual" title="Panthera"><i>Panthera</i></a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/panther#English" title="panther">panther</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2011</b></span>, Karl Kruszelnicki, <cite>Brain Food</cite>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1466828129" title="Special:BookSources/1466828129">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">53</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various <b>cats</b> (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_Q146" data-lang="en" data-id="Q146">A domesticated <a href="/wiki/species" title="species">species</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Felis_catus#Translingual" title="Felis catus"><i>Felis catus</i></a></span>) of <a href="/wiki/feline" title="feline">feline</a> animal, commonly kept as a house <a href="/wiki/pet" title="pet">pet</a>. <span class="defdate">[from 8<sup>th</sup>c.]</span> <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonyms:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/puss#English" title="puss">puss</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pussy#English" title="pussy">pussy</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitty#English" title="kitty">kitty</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pussy-cat#English" title="pussy-cat">pussy-cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitty-cat#English" title="kitty-cat">kitty-cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/grimalkin#English" title="grimalkin">grimalkin</a></span>; <i>see also</i> <a href="/wiki/Thesaurus:cat#English" title="Thesaurus:cat">Thesaurus:<span class="Latn" lang="en">cat</span></a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nyms hypernym"><span class="defdate">Hypernyms:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/housecat#English" title="housecat">housecat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/malkin#English" title="malkin">malkin</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitten#English" title="kitten">kitten</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/mouser#English" title="mouser">mouser</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tomcat#English" title="tomcat">tomcat</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1892</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Besant" class="extiw" title="w:Walter Besant">Walter Besant</a>, chapter II, in <cite>The Ivory Gate<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="A Novel">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Harper (publisher)">Harper & Brothers</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Franklin Square">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/16832619">→OCLC</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or <b>cat</b>—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Any similar animal of the family <span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Felidae#Translingual" title="Felidae">Felidae</a></span>, which includes <a href="/wiki/lion" title="lion">lions</a>, <a href="/wiki/tiger" title="tiger">tigers</a>, <a href="/wiki/bobcat" title="bobcat">bobcats</a>, <a href="/wiki/leopard" title="leopard">leopards</a>, <a href="/wiki/cougar" title="cougar">cougars</a>, <a href="/wiki/cheetah" title="cheetah">cheetahs</a>, <a href="/wiki/caracal" title="caracal">caracals</a>, <a href="/wiki/lynx" title="lynx">lynxes</a>, and other such non-domesticated species. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1977</b></span>, Peter Hathaway Capstick, <cite>Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush</cite>, St. Martin's Press, page <span class="None" lang="und">44</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the <b>cat</b> still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1985</b></span> January, George Laycock, “Our American Lion”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_Life" class="extiw" title="w:Boys' Life">Boys' Life</a></cite>, Boy Scouts of America, section 28:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">If you should someday round a corner on the hiking trail and come face to face with a mountain lion, you would probably never forget the mighty <b>cat</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Dale Mayer, <cite>Rare Find. A Psychic Visions Novel</cite>, Valley Publishing:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">She felt privileged to be here, living the experience inside the majestic <b>cat</b> [i.e. a tiger]; privileged to be part of their bond, even for only a few hours.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> The <a href="/wiki/meat" title="meat">meat</a> of this animal, eaten as food. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonyms:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catflesh#English" title="catflesh">catflesh</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_meat#English" title="cat meat">cat meat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/gutter_rabbit#English" title="gutter rabbit">gutter rabbit</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-sense"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#euphemism" title="Appendix:Glossary">euphemistic</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/roof_rabbit#English" title="roof rabbit">roof rabbit</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-sense"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#euphemism" title="Appendix:Glossary">euphemistic</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1948</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Stephen_Keeler" class="extiw" title="w:Harry Stephen Keeler">Harry Stephen Keeler</a>, <cite>The Case of the Jeweled Ragpicker</cite> (The Screwball Circus Mysteries; 3), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildside_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Wildside Press">Wildside Press</a>, published <span class="None" lang="und">2017</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781479425518" title="Special:BookSources/9781479425518">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">“<span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>—Say, do you mind telling me if people around here really eat cats?” He felt a shiver in the pit of his stomach. “Do they eat <b>cat</b>?” said the little old man, profoundly shocked.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2013</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hessler" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Hessler">Peter Hessler</a>, <cite>Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Perennial" class="extiw" title="w:Harper Perennial">Harper Perennial</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780062206244" title="Special:BookSources/9780062206244">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">You do not eat <b>cat</b> simply for the thrill of eating <b>cat</b>. You eat <b>cat</b> because cats have a lively <i>jingshen</i>, or spirit, and thus by eating the animal you will improve your spirits.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2013</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bartleman" class="extiw" title="w:James Bartleman">James Bartleman</a>, <cite>The Redemption of Oscar Wolf</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundurn_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Dundurn Press">Dundurn</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4597-0984-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4597-0984-3">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I ate at a Chinese restaurant once, even though my friends told me I would probably be eating <b>cat</b> and dog disguised as chicken.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>A person: <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#offensive" title="Appendix:Glossary">offensive</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A spiteful or angry <a href="/wiki/woman" title="woman">woman</a>. <span class="defdate">[from early 13<sup>th</sup>c.]</span> <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/bitch#English" title="bitch">bitch</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1835</b></span> September, anonymous author, “The Pigs”, in <cite>The New-England Magazine</cite>, <span class="None" lang="und">Vol. 9, 156</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a <b>cat</b> — a slut — a scold.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>An enthusiast or player of <a href="/wiki/jazz" title="jazz">jazz</a>. <dl><dd><span class="h-usage-example collocation"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">jazz <b>cat</b></i></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2008</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave_and_the_Bad_Seeds" class="extiw" title="w:Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds">Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds</a>, “Hold on to Yourself”:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I turn on the radio / There's some <b>cat</b> on the saxophone / Laying down a litany of excuses</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A person (usually male). <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonyms:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/bloke#English" title="bloke">bloke</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/chap#English" title="chap">chap</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cove#English" title="cove">cove</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dude#English" title="dude">dude</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fellow#English" title="fellow">fellow</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fella#English" title="fella">fella</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/guy#English" title="guy">guy</a></span>; <i>see also</i> <a href="/wiki/Thesaurus:man#English" title="Thesaurus:man">Thesaurus:<span class="Latn" lang="en">man</span></a></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1958</b></span>, “Fever”, Eddie Cooley, Otis Blackwell, Peggy Lee (lyrics), performed by Peggy Lee:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Now you've listened to my story / Here's the point that I have made / <b>Cats</b> were born to give chicks fever / Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1972</b></span>, “Starman”, in <cite>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</cite>, performed by David Bowie:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Didn't know what time it was the lights were low / I leaned back on my radio / Some <b>cat</b> was layin' down some rock'n'roll 'lotta soul, he said</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><b>1973</b> December, "Books Noted", discussing <i>A Dialogue</i> (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in <i>Black World</i>, Johnson Publishing Company, 77. <dl><dd>BALDWIN: That's what we were talking about before. And by the way, you did not have to tell me that you think your father is a groovy <b>cat</b>; I knew that.</dd></dl></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1998</b></span>, “Fiend”, in <cite>Respect</cite>, performed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" class="extiw" title="w:Shaquille O'Neal">Shaquille O'Neal</a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">What fags are true I know what Mack's might do<br />I'm quite familiar with <b>cats</b> like you<br />Provoke to get me give me a good reason to smoke me<br />Try to break me but never wrote me)</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2006</b></span>, Noire <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>pseudonym<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>, <cite>Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale</cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_(imprint)" class="extiw" title="w:One World (imprint)">One World</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballantine_Books" class="extiw" title="w:Ballantine Books">Ballantine Books</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7394-7409-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7394-7409-9">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/thugaliciousurba0000noir/page/208/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">208</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I started showing up early for every team practice, and when all those other <b>cats</b> jetted to hit the showers, I put in even more work on the court, eliminating my weaknesses, practicing drills and perfecting my outside shot.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2006</b></span>, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), <cite>Pariah</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I am sick of rappers claiming they hot when they really not<br />I am sick of rappers bragging about shit they ain’t really got<br />These <b>cats</b> stay rapping about cars they don’t own<br />I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don’t bone.[…]<br />And I am sick of all these <b>cats</b> with no talent<br />That never lived in the hood but yet their lyrics be so violent.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/prostitute" title="prostitute">prostitute</a>. <span class="defdate">[from at least early 15<sup>th</sup>c.]</span> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1999</b></span>, Carl P. Eby, <cite>Hemingway's Fetishism. Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood</cite>, State University of New York Press, page <span class="None" lang="und">124</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">"Tell me. Willie said there was a <b>cat</b> in love with you. That isn't true, is it?" "Yes. It's true," Hudson corrects her, letting her think that by "cat" he means prostitute.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/nautical" title="nautical">nautical</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the <a href="/wiki/cathead" title="cathead">cathead</a> of a ship. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2009</b></span>, Olof A. Eriksen, <cite>Constitution - All Sails Up and Flying</cite>, Outskirts Press, page <span class="None" lang="und">134</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Overhaul down & hook the <b>cat</b>, haul taut. Walk away the <b>cat</b>. When up, pass the <b>cat</b> head stopper. Hook the fish in & fish the anchor.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content">chiefly <a href="/wiki/nautical" title="nautical">nautical</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Short for <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-o%27-nine-tails#English" title="cat-o'-nine-tails">cat-o'-nine-tails</a></i></span></span>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1839</b></span>, <cite>Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York</cite>, testimony by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Pinckney" class="extiw" title="w:Henry L. Pinckney">Henry L. Pinckney</a> (Assembly No. 335), page <span class="None" lang="und">44</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><span class="q-hellip-sp"></span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span>he whipped a black man for disobedience of his orders fifty lashes; and again whipped him with a <b>cat</b>, which he wound with wire, about the same number of stripes;<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span>he used this <b>cat</b> on one other man, and then destroyed the <b>cat</b> wound with wire.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A sturdy merchant sailing vessel <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">now only in "<a href="/wiki/catboat" title="catboat">catboat</a>"</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> The game of <a href="/wiki/trap_ball" title="trap ball">trap ball</a>. <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> The <a href="/wiki/trap" title="trap">trap</a> in that game.</li></ol></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of <a href="/wiki/tipcat" title="tipcat">tipcat</a>.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#vulgar" title="Appendix:Glossary">vulgar</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English" class="extiw" title="w:African-American Vernacular English">African-American Vernacular</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/vagina" title="vagina">vagina</a> or <a href="/wiki/vulva" title="vulva">vulva</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1969</b></span>, Iceberg Slim, <cite>Pimp: The Story of My Life</cite>, Holloway House Publishing:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">"What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray <b>cat</b>."</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2005</b></span>, Carolyn Chambers Sanders, <cite>Sins & Secrets</cite>, Hachette Digital:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">As she came up, she tried to put her <b>cat</b> in his face for some licking.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2007</b></span>, Franklin White, <cite>Money for Good</cite>, Simon and Schuster, page <span class="None" lang="und">64</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I had a notion to walk over to her, rip her apron off, sling her housecoat open and put my finger inside her <b>cat</b> to see if she was wet or freshly fucked because the dream I had earlier was beginning to really annoy me.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/double" title="double">double</a> <a href="/wiki/tripod" title="tripod">tripod</a> (for holding a <a href="/wiki/plate" title="plate">plate</a>, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_wheeled_shelter" data-lang="en" data-id="wheeled shelter"> <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#historical" title="Appendix:Glossary">historical</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/wheel" title="wheel">wheeled</a> <a href="/wiki/shelter" title="shelter">shelter</a>, used in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> as a <a href="/wiki/siege" title="siege">siege</a> weapon to allow <a href="/wiki/assailant" title="assailant">assailants</a> to approach enemy <a href="/wiki/defence" title="defence">defences</a>. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonyms:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tortoise#English" title="tortoise">tortoise</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Welsh_cat#English" title="Welsh cat">Welsh cat</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2000</b></span>, Stephen O'Shea, <cite>The Perfect Heresy</cite>, Profile Books, page <span class="None" lang="und">97</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">From behind the narrow slits in the walls of Castellar, crossbowmen and archers took aim at the juddering <b>cat</b> as it came closer.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Abyssinian_cat#English" title="Abyssinian cat">Abyssinian cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/a_cat_can_look_at_a_king#English" title="a cat can look at a king">a cat can look at a king</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/a_cat_in_gloves_catches_no_mice#English" title="a cat in gloves catches no mice">a cat in gloves catches no mice</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/a_cat_in_hell%27s_chance#English" class="mw-redirect" title="a cat in hell's chance">a cat in hell's chance</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/a_cat_may_look_at_a_king#English" title="a cat may look at a king">a cat may look at a king</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Aegean_cat#English" title="Aegean cat">Aegean cat</a></span></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:African_golden_cat" class="extiw" title="w:en:African golden cat">African golden cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caracal_aurata" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Caracal aurata"><i>Caracal aurata</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/all_cats_are_grey_by_night#English" title="all cats are grey by night">all cats are grey by night</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/all_cats_are_grey_in_the_dark#English" title="all cats are grey in the dark">all cats are grey in the dark</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/alley_cat#English" title="alley cat">alley cat</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Andean_cat" title="Andean cat">Andean cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Leopardus_jacobitus#Translingual" title="Leopardus jacobitus"><i>Leopardus jacobitus</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Andean_mountain_cat#English" title="Andean mountain cat">Andean mountain cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/anticat#English" title="anticat">anticat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Arnold%27s_cat_map#English" title="Arnold's cat map">Arnold's cat map</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Asian_golden_cat#English" title="Asian golden cat">Asian golden cat</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Asiatic_golden_cat" title="Asiatic golden cat">Asiatic golden cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catopuma_temminckii" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Catopuma temminckii"><i>Catopuma temminckii</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/barn_cat#English" title="barn cat">barn cat</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/bay_cat" title="bay cat">bay cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catopuma_badia" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Catopuma badia"><i>Catopuma badia</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/bear_cat#English" title="bear cat">bear cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/bearcat#English" title="bearcat">bearcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/bell_the_cat#English" title="bell the cat">bell the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Bengal_cat#English" title="Bengal cat">Bengal cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/big_cat#English" title="big cat">big cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/black_cat#English" title="black cat">black cat</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/black-footed_cat" title="black-footed cat">black-footed cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Felis_negripes" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Felis negripes"><i>Felis negripes</i></a></span>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/bobcat" title="bobcat">bobcat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Lynx_rufus#Translingual" title="Lynx rufus"><i>Lynx rufus</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Bombay_cat#English" title="Bombay cat">Bombay cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Burmese_cat#English" title="Burmese cat">Burmese cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Burmese#English" title="Burmese">Burmese</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/bushcat#English" title="bushcat">bushcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cabbit#English" title="cabbit">cabbit</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cactus_cat#English" title="cactus cat">cactus cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/calico_cat#English" title="calico cat">calico cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/care_killed_a_cat#English" title="care killed a cat">care killed a cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/care_killed_the_cat#English" title="care killed the cat">care killed the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cataholic#English" title="cataholic">cataholic</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-a-mountain#English" title="cat-a-mountain">cat-a-mountain</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_and_dog#English" title="cat and dog">cat and dog</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_and_dog_life#English" title="cat and dog life">cat and dog life</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_and_kitten_sneaking#English" title="cat and kitten sneaking">cat and kitten sneaking</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_and_mouse#English" title="cat and mouse">cat and mouse</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-and-mouse#English" title="cat-and-mouse">cat-and-mouse</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_around#English" title="cat around">cat around</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catbath#English" title="catbath">catbath</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_bear#English" title="cat bear">cat bear</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_bird#English" title="cat bird">cat bird</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-bird#English" title="cat-bird">cat-bird</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catbird#English" title="catbird">catbird</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-block#English" title="cat-block">cat-block</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catblogging#English" title="catblogging">catblogging</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_box#English" title="cat box">cat box</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catboy#English" title="catboy">catboy</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-burglar#English" title="cat-burglar">cat-burglar</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_burglar#English" title="cat burglar">cat burglar</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-burglarize#English" title="cat-burglarize">cat-burglarize</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_burglary#English" title="cat burglary">cat burglary</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-burgle#English" title="cat-burgle">cat-burgle</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catbutt#English" title="catbutt">catbutt</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_cafe#English" title="cat cafe">cat cafe</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_caf%C3%A9#English" title="cat café">cat café</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catcall#English" title="catcall">catcall</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-call#English" title="cat-call">cat-call</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_calling_the_kettle_black#English" title="cat calling the kettle black">cat calling the kettle black</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-castle#English" title="cat-castle">cat-castle</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catcatcher#English" title="catcatcher">catcatcher</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-claw#English" title="cat-claw">cat-claw</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catclaw#English" title="catclaw">catclaw</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_containment#English" title="cat containment">cat containment</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-cow#English" title="cat-cow">cat-cow</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_cracker#English" title="cat cracker">cat cracker</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catdom#English" title="catdom">catdom</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_door#English" title="cat door">cat door</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/caterole#English" title="caterole">caterole</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/caterwaul#English" title="caterwaul">caterwaul</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catess#English" title="catess">catess</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-eye#English" title="cat-eye">cat-eye</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-eyed#English" title="cat-eyed">cat-eyed</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catface#English" title="catface">catface</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_factory#English" title="cat factory">cat factory</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catfall#English" title="catfall">catfall</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_farm#English" title="cat farm">cat farm</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_fight#English" title="cat fight">cat fight</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catfight#English" title="catfight">catfight</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catfish#English" title="catfish">catfish</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catfit#English" title="catfit">catfit</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-flap#English" title="cat-flap">cat-flap</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_flap#English" title="cat flap">cat flap</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_food#English" title="cat food">cat food</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-foot#English" title="cat-foot">cat-foot</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-footed#English" title="cat-footed">cat-footed</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catfucker#English" title="catfucker">catfucker</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_fur#English" title="cat fur">cat fur</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-fur#English" title="cat-fur">cat-fur</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_girl#English" title="cat girl">cat girl</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-girl#English" title="cat-girl">cat-girl</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catgirl#English" title="catgirl">catgirl</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_got_someone%27s_tongue#English" title="cat got someone's tongue">cat got someone's tongue</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_got_your_tongue#English" class="mw-redirect" title="cat got your tongue">cat got your tongue?</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_grape#English" title="cat grape">cat grape</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catgut#English" title="catgut">catgut</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cathair#English" title="cathair">cathair</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-hammed#English" title="cat-hammed">cat-hammed</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-harpin#English" title="cat-harpin">cat-harpin</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-harping#English" title="cat-harping">cat-harping</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cathead#English" title="cathead">cathead</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-head#English" title="cat-head">cat-head</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_hole#English" title="cat hole">cat hole</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cathole#English" title="cathole">cathole</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-hole#English" title="cat-hole">cat-hole</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cathood#English" title="cathood">cathood</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_hotel#English" title="cat hotel">cat hotel</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_house#English" title="cat house">cat house</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cathouse#English" title="cathouse">cathouse</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-house#English" title="cat-house">cat-house</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_ice#English" title="cat ice">cat ice</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/caticorn#English" title="caticorn">caticorn</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_in_hell%27s_chance#English" title="cat in hell's chance">cat in hell's chance</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_in_the_meal-tub#English" title="cat in the meal-tub">cat in the meal-tub</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_in_the_meal_tub#English" title="cat in the meal tub">cat in the meal tub</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_in_the_pan#English" title="cat in the pan">cat in the pan</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_in_the_sack#English" title="cat in the sack">cat in the sack</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catio#English" title="catio">catio</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catitude#English" title="catitude">catitude</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catkin#English" title="catkin">catkin</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catkind#English" title="catkind">catkind</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_lady#English" title="cat lady">cat lady</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-lap#English" title="cat-lap">cat-lap</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catlap#English" title="catlap">catlap</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catless#English" title="catless">catless</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catlet#English" title="catlet">catlet</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-lick#English" title="cat-lick">cat-lick</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catlicker#English" title="catlicker">catlicker</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catlike#English" title="catlike">catlike</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-like#English" title="cat-like">cat-like</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catling#English" title="catling">catling</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_litter#English" title="cat litter">cat litter</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_liver_fluke#English" title="cat liver fluke">cat liver fluke</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catloaf#English" title="catloaf">catloaf</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catlore#English" title="catlore">catlore</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catlover#English" title="catlover">catlover</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catloving#English" title="catloving">catloving</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catly#English" title="catly">catly</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_malogen#English" title="cat malogen">cat malogen</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_man#English" title="cat man">cat man</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-man#English" title="cat-man">cat-man</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_meat#English" title="cat meat">cat meat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_milk#English" title="cat milk">cat milk</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_mill#English" title="cat mill">cat mill</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catmill#English" title="catmill">catmill</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catmint#English" title="catmint">catmint</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-nap#English" title="cat-nap">cat-nap</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_nap#English" title="cat nap">cat nap</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catnap#English" title="catnap">catnap</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_napper#English" title="cat napper">cat napper</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-napper#English" title="cat-napper">cat-napper</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catnapper#English" title="catnapper">catnapper</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catness#English" title="catness">catness</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-nip#English" title="cat-nip">cat-nip</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catnip#English" title="catnip">catnip</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_nip#English" title="cat nip">cat nip</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_o%27_mountain#English" title="cat o' mountain">cat o' mountain</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-o%27-nine#English" title="cat-o'-nine">cat-o'-nine</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-o-nine#English" title="cat-o-nine">cat-o-nine</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-o%27-nine-tails#English" title="cat-o'-nine-tails">cat-o'-nine-tails</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catophile#English" title="catophile">catophile</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_organ#English" title="cat organ">cat organ</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catperson#English" title="catperson">catperson</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_piss#English" title="cat piss">cat piss</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catproof#English" title="catproof">catproof</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-proof#English" title="cat-proof">cat-proof</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-rigged#English" title="cat-rigged">cat-rigged</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-salt#English" title="cat-salt">cat-salt</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_cradle#English" title="cat's cradle">cat's cradle</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_scratch#English" title="cat scratch">cat scratch</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catscratch#English" title="catscratch">catscratch</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_scratch_disease#English" title="cat scratch disease">cat scratch disease</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-scratch_disease#English" title="cat-scratch disease">cat-scratch disease</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_scratch_fever#English" title="cat scratch fever">cat scratch fever</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-scratch_fever#English" title="cat-scratch fever">cat-scratch fever</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_eye#English" title="cat's eye">cat's eye</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catsfoot#English" title="catsfoot">catsfoot</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s-foot#English" class="mw-redirect" title="cat's-foot">cat's-foot</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catshank#English" title="catshank">catshank</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catshark#English" title="catshark">catshark</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catshit#English" title="catshit">catshit</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-shy#English" title="cat-shy">cat-shy</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catsicle#English" title="catsicle">catsicle</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-sit#English" title="cat-sit">cat-sit</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_sit#English" title="cat sit">cat sit</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catsitter#English" title="catsitter">catsitter</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catskin#English" title="catskin">catskin</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catskinner#English" title="catskinner">catskinner</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catslaughter#English" title="catslaughter">catslaughter</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catslide#English" title="catslide">catslide</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_meat#English" title="cat's meat">cat's meat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_meow#English" title="cat's meow">cat's meow</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_snake#English" title="cat snake">cat snake</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_pajamas#English" class="mw-redirect" title="cat's pajamas">cat's pajamas</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_pyjamas#English" class="mw-redirect" title="cat's pyjamas">cat's pyjamas</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_paw#English" title="cat's paw">cat's paw</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catspeak#English" title="catspeak">catspeak</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_squirrel#English" title="cat squirrel">cat squirrel</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cats_rule,_dogs_drool#English" title="cats rule, dogs drool">cats rule, dogs drool</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catstail#English" title="catstail">catstail</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_state#English" title="cat state">cat state</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catstep#English" title="catstep">catstep</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-stick#English" title="cat-stick">cat-stick</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catstick#English" title="catstick">catstick</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catstitch#English" title="catstitch">catstitch</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_stretch#English" title="cat stretch">cat stretch</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catsuit#English" title="catsuit">catsuit</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_whisker#English" title="cat's whisker">cat's whisker</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat%27s_whiskers#English" title="cat's whiskers">cat's whiskers</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catswort#English" title="catswort">catswort</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cattail#English" title="cattail">cattail</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-tail_sedge#English" title="cat-tail sedge">cat-tail sedge</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_tax#English" title="cat tax">cat tax</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cattery#English" title="cattery">cattery</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_that_ate_the_canary#English" title="cat that ate the canary">cat that ate the canary</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_that_got_the_cream#English" title="cat that got the cream">cat that got the cream</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_that_swallowed_the_canary#English" title="cat that swallowed the canary">cat that swallowed the canary</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_thyme#English" title="cat thyme">cat thyme</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cattish#English" title="cattish">cattish</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cattitude#English" title="cattitude">cattitude</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catto#English" title="catto">catto</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_tongue#English" title="cat tongue">cat tongue</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_tower#English" title="cat tower">cat tower</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_train#English" title="cat train">cat train</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-trap#English" title="cat-trap">cat-trap</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_tree#English" title="cat tree">cat tree</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catty#English" title="catty">catty</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_unit#English" title="cat unit">cat unit</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Caturday#English" title="Caturday">Caturday</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catvertising#English" title="catvertising">catvertising</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_wagon#English" title="cat wagon">cat wagon</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catwalk#English" title="catwalk">catwalk</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-walk#English" title="cat-walk">cat-walk</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catwalker#English" title="catwalker">catwalker</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catwise#English" title="catwise">catwise</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat-witted#English" title="cat-witted">cat-witted</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catwoman#English" title="catwoman">catwoman</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catworm#English" title="catworm">catworm</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catwort#English" title="catwort">catwort</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/channel_cat#English" title="channel cat">channel cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Cheshire_cat#English" title="Cheshire cat">Cheshire cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/chessy_cat#English" title="chessy cat">chessy cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_desert_cat#English" title="Chinese desert cat">Chinese desert cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_mountain_cat#English" title="Chinese mountain cat">Chinese mountain cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/civet_cat#English" title="civet cat">civet cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/civvy_cat#English" title="civvy cat">civvy cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/community_cat#English" title="community cat">community cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/conceited_as_a_barber%27s_cat#English" title="conceited as a barber's cat">conceited as a barber's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cool_cat#English" title="cool cat">cool cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/coon_cat#English" title="coon cat">coon cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/copy_cat#English" title="copy cat">copy cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/copy-cat#English" title="copy-cat">copy-cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/copycat#English" title="copycat">copycat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/curiosity_killed_the_cat#English" title="curiosity killed the cat">curiosity killed the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_cat#English" title="Cyprus cat">Cyprus cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dead_cat#English" title="dead cat">dead cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dead-cat_bounce#English" title="dead-cat bounce">dead-cat bounce</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dead_cat_bounce#English" title="dead cat bounce">dead cat bounce</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/desert_cat#English" title="desert cat">desert cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/different_breed_of_cat#English" title="different breed of cat">different breed of cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dog_and_cat#English" title="dog and cat">dog and cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dogs_have_masters,_cats_have_staff#English" title="dogs have masters, cats have staff">dogs have masters, cats have staff</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/dogs_have_owners,_cats_have_staff#English" title="dogs have owners, cats have staff">dogs have owners, cats have staff</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/domestic_cat#English" title="domestic cat">domestic cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/duckbill_cat#English" title="duckbill cat">duckbill cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/duck-bill_cat#English" title="duck-bill cat">duck-bill cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/duck-billed_cat#English" title="duck-billed cat">duck-billed cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/enough_to_make_a_cat_laugh#English" title="enough to make a cat laugh">enough to make a cat laugh</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ewe_cat#English" title="ewe cat">ewe cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/false_saber-toothed_cat#English" title="false saber-toothed cat">false saber-toothed cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/false_sabre-toothed_cat#English" title="false sabre-toothed cat">false sabre-toothed cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/farm_cat#English" title="farm cat">farm cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fat_cat#English" title="fat cat">fat cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fat-cat#English" title="fat-cat">fat-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/feral_cat#English" title="feral cat">feral cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fight_like_cat_and_dog#English" title="fight like cat and dog">fight like cat and dog</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fight_like_cats_and_dogs#English" title="fight like cats and dogs">fight like cats and dogs</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/fisher_cat" title="fisher cat">fisher cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Pekania_pennanti#Translingual" title="Pekania pennanti"><i>Pekania pennanti</i></a></span>, syn. <span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Martes_pennanti#Translingual" title="Martes pennanti"><i>Martes pennanti</i></a></span>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/fishing_cat" title="fishing cat">fishing cat</a> <span class="biota"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prionailurus_viverrinus" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Prionailurus viverrinus"><i>Prionailurus viverrinus</i></a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/flat-headed_cat" title="flat-headed cat">flat-headed cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Prionailurus_planiceps#Translingual" title="Prionailurus planiceps"><i>Prionailurus planiceps</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/flying_cat#English" title="flying cat">flying cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fraidy_cat#English" title="fraidy cat">fraidy cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fraidy-cat#English" title="fraidy-cat">fraidy-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Geoffroy%27s_cat#English" title="Geoffroy's cat">Geoffroy's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/gib-cat#English" title="gib-cat">gib-cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/gib_cat#English" title="gib cat">gib cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/grandcat#English" title="grandcat">grandcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/great_cat#English" title="great cat">great cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/grin_like_a_Cheshire_cat#English" title="grin like a Cheshire cat">grin like a Cheshire cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/he-cat#English" title="he-cat">he-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/hellcat#English" title="hellcat">hellcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/hepcat#English" title="hepcat">hepcat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/hep_cat#English" title="hep cat">hep cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/hep-cat#English" title="hep-cat">hep-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/herd_cats#English" title="herd cats">herd cats</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/house_cat#English" title="house cat">house cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/housecat#English" title="housecat">housecat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/hunting_cat#English" title="hunting cat">hunting cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/hydrophobia_cat#English" title="hydrophobia cat">hydrophobia cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Iriomote_cat#English" title="Iriomote cat">Iriomote cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Janus_cat#English" title="Janus cat">Janus cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Japan_cat#English" title="Japan cat">Japan cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Java_cat#English" title="Java cat">Java cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/jungle_cat#English" title="jungle cat">jungle cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/KatyCat#English" title="KatyCat">KatyCat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kick_at_the_cat#English" title="kick at the cat">kick at the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Kilkenny_cat#English" title="Kilkenny cat">Kilkenny cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kit-cat#English" title="kit-cat">kit-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitling#English" title="kitling">kitling</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitty-cat#English" title="kitty-cat">kitty-cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitty_cat#English" title="kitty cat">kitty cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kleptocat#English" title="kleptocat">kleptocat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/lap_cat#English" title="lap cat">lap cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/lead_a_cat-and-dog_life#English" class="mw-redirect" title="lead a cat-and-dog life">lead a cat-and-dog life</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/leopard_cat#English" title="leopard cat">leopard cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/let_the_cat_out#English" title="let the cat out">let the cat out</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/let_the_cat_out_of_the_bag#English" title="let the cat out of the bag">let the cat out of the bag</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_a_cat_in_a_strange_garret#English" title="like a cat in a strange garret">like a cat in a strange garret</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_a_cat_on_a_hot_tin_roof#English" title="like a cat on a hot tin roof">like a cat on a hot tin roof</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_a_cat_on_hot_bricks#English" class="mw-redirect" title="like a cat on hot bricks">like a cat on hot bricks</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_a_scalded_cat#English" title="like a scalded cat">like a scalded cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_herding_cats#English" class="mw-redirect" title="like herding cats">like herding cats</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_the_cat_that_got_the_cream#English" title="like the cat that got the cream">like the cat that got the cream</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/little_spotted_cat#English" title="little spotted cat">little spotted cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/lolcat#English" title="lolcat">lolcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/look_like_something_the_cat_brought_in#English" title="look like something the cat brought in">look like something the cat brought in</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/look_like_something_the_cat_dragged_in#English" title="look like something the cat dragged in">look like something the cat dragged in</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/look_what_the_cat_dragged_in#English" title="look what the cat dragged in">look what the cat dragged in</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/look_what_the_cat_drug_in#English" title="look what the cat drug in">look what the cat drug in</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/look_what_the_cat%27s_dragged_in#English" title="look what the cat's dragged in">look what the cat's dragged in</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/look_who_the_cat_dragged_in#English" title="look who the cat dragged in">look who the cat dragged in</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Maine_Coon_cat#English" title="Maine Coon cat">Maine Coon cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Maine_Coon#English" title="Maine Coon">Maine Coon</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/make_a_cat_laugh#English" title="make a cat laugh">make a cat laugh</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Maltese_cat#English" title="Maltese cat">Maltese cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Manx_cat#English" title="Manx cat">Manx cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Manx#English" title="Manx">Manx</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/marbled_cat#English" title="marbled cat">marbled cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/m-cat#English" title="m-cat">m-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/mercat#English" title="mercat">mercat</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/miner%27s_cat" title="miner's cat">miner's cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Bassariscus_astutus#Translingual" title="Bassariscus astutus"><i>Bassariscus astutus</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/mountain_cat#English" title="mountain cat">mountain cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/mudcat#English" title="mudcat">mudcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/multicat#English" title="multicat">multicat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/musk_cat#English" title="musk cat">musk cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/native_cat#English" title="native cat">native cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/nervous_as_a_cat#English" title="nervous as a cat">nervous as a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/nervous_as_a_long-tailed_cat_in_a_room_full_of_rocking_chairs#English" title="nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs">nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/noncat#English" title="noncat">noncat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_forest_cat#English" title="Norwegian forest cat">Norwegian forest cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/not_enough_room_to_swing_a_cat#English" title="not enough room to swing a cat">not enough room to swing a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/not_while_pussy%27s_a_cat#English" title="not while pussy's a cat">not while pussy's a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Ocicat#English" title="Ocicat">Ocicat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/old_cat#English" title="old cat">old cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/painted_cat#English" title="painted cat">painted cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Pallas%27_cat#English" title="Pallas' cat">Pallas' cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Pallas_cat#English" title="Pallas cat">Pallas cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Pallas%27s_cat#English" title="Pallas's cat">Pallas's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pampas_cat#English" title="pampas cat">pampas cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Pampas_cat#English" title="Pampas cat">Pampas cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Pantanal_cat#English" title="Pantanal cat">Pantanal cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Persian_cat#English" title="Persian cat">Persian cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Persian#English" title="Persian">Persian</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/phoby_cat#English" title="phoby cat">phoby cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/play_the_cat_and_banjo_with#English" title="play the cat and banjo with">play the cat and banjo with</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/podcat#English" title="podcat">podcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/poor_as_a_barber%27s_cat#English" title="poor as a barber's cat">poor as a barber's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pork-cat_syndrome#English" title="pork-cat syndrome">pork-cat syndrome</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pseudocat#English" title="pseudocat">pseudocat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/pussy_cat#English" title="pussy cat">pussy cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/put_the_cat_among_the_pigeons#English" title="put the cat among the pigeons">put the cat among the pigeons</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/rain_cats_and_dogs#English" title="rain cats and dogs">rain cats and dogs</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ram-cat#English" title="ram-cat">ram-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/reduced_cat#English" title="reduced cat">reduced cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ringtail_cat#English" title="ringtail cat">ringtail cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ring-tail_cat#English" title="ring-tail cat">ring-tail cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ringtailed_cat#English" title="ringtailed cat">ringtailed cat</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/ring-tailed_cat" title="ring-tailed cat">ring-tailed cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Bassariscus_astutus#Translingual" title="Bassariscus astutus"><i>Bassariscus astutus</i></a></span>)</li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ring-tailed_civet_cat#English" title="ring-tailed civet cat">ring-tailed civet cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/roaring_cat#English" title="roaring cat">roaring cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/robocat#English" title="robocat">robocat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Blue_cat#English" title="Russian Blue cat">Russian Blue cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Blue#English" title="Russian Blue">Russian Blue</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/rusty-spotted_cat#English" title="rusty-spotted cat">rusty-spotted cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sabercat#English" title="sabercat">sabercat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/saber-toothed_cat#English" title="saber-toothed cat">saber-toothed cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sabrecat#English" title="sabrecat">sabrecat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sabre-toothed_cat#English" title="sabre-toothed cat">sabre-toothed cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/saltcat#English" title="saltcat">saltcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sand_cat#English" title="sand cat">sand cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Savannah_cat#English" title="Savannah cat">Savannah cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/scaredy_cat#English" title="scaredy cat">scaredy cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/scaredy-cat#English" title="scaredy-cat">scaredy-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat#English" title="Schrödinger's cat">Schrödinger's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/scimitar_cat#English" title="scimitar cat">scimitar cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/scimitar-toothed_cat#English" title="scimitar-toothed cat">scimitar-toothed cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sea_cat#English" title="sea cat">sea cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/see_which_way_the_cat_jumps#English" title="see which way the cat jumps">see which way the cat jumps</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Serengeti_cat#English" title="Serengeti cat">Serengeti cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/set_the_cat_among_the_pigeons#English" title="set the cat among the pigeons">set the cat among the pigeons</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/she-cat#English" title="she-cat">she-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/shoot_the_cat#English" title="shoot the cat">shoot the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Siamese_cat#English" title="Siamese cat">Siamese cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Siamese#English" title="Siamese">Siamese</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sick_as_a_cat#English" title="sick as a cat">sick as a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/singed_cat#English" title="singed cat">singed cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/skin_the_cat#English" title="skin the cat">skin the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/snowcat#English" title="snowcat">snowcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/so_help_me_cat#English" title="so help me cat">so help me cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/spokescat#English" title="spokescat">spokescat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/steppe_cat#English" title="steppe cat">steppe cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/stink-cat#English" title="stink-cat">stink-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tabby_cat#English" title="tabby cat">tabby cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tabby#English" title="tabby">tabby</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tear_a_cat#English" title="tear a cat">tear a cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tear-cat#English" title="tear-cat">tear-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Temminck%27s_cat#English" title="Temminck's cat">Temminck's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/the_cat_would_eat_fish_but_would_not_wet_her_feet#English" title="the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet">the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/there_are_many_ways_to_skin_a_cat#English" title="there are many ways to skin a cat">there are many ways to skin a cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/there%27s_more_than_one_way_to_skin_a_cat#English" title="there's more than one way to skin a cat">there's more than one way to skin a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/there%27s_more_than_one_way_to_feed_a_cat#English" title="there's more than one way to feed a cat">there's more than one way to feed a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/there%27s_more_than_one_way_to_fuck_a_cat#English" title="there's more than one way to fuck a cat">there's more than one way to fuck a cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/thin_as_a_barber%27s_cat#English" title="thin as a barber's cat">thin as a barber's cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tiger_cat#English" title="tiger cat">tiger cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tip-cat#English" title="tip-cat">tip-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/toddy_cat#English" title="toddy cat">toddy cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tom-cat#English" title="tom-cat">tom-cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tom_cat#English" title="tom cat">tom cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tomcat#English" title="tomcat">tomcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/top_cat#English" title="top cat">top cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tortoiseshell_cat#English" title="tortoiseshell cat">tortoiseshell cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/troll_cat#English" title="troll cat">troll cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tuxedo_cat#English" title="tuxedo cat">tuxedo cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Van_cat#English" title="Van cat">Van cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/wait_for_the_cat_to_jump#English" title="wait for the cat to jump">wait for the cat to jump</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/walk_back_the_cat#English" title="walk back the cat">walk back the cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/walk_the_cat_back#English" title="walk the cat back">walk the cat back</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/watchcat#English" title="watchcat">watchcat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/werecat#English" title="werecat">werecat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/when_the_cat%27s_away_the_mice_will_play#English" title="when the cat's away the mice will play">when the cat's away the mice will play</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/whip_the_cat#English" title="whip the cat">whip the cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/wildcat#English" title="wildcat">wildcat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/wild_cat#English" title="wild cat">wild cat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/wild-cat#English" title="wild-cat">wild-cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/wobbly_cat_syndrome#English" title="wobbly cat syndrome">wobbly cat syndrome</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/wolf-cat#English" title="wolf-cat">wolf-cat</a></span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations">Translations</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align: left;">See <a href="/wiki/cat/translations#Noun" title="cat/translations">cat/translations § Noun</a>.</div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Verb">Verb</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">cat</strong> (<i>third-person singular simple present</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en s-verb-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cats#English" title="cats">cats</a></b>, <i>present participle</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en ing-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catting#English" title="catting">catting</a></b>, <i>simple past and past participle</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en ed-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catted#English" title="catted">catted</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/nautical" title="nautical">nautical</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> To <a href="/wiki/hoist#Verb" title="hoist">hoist</a> (an <a href="/wiki/anchor#Noun" title="anchor">anchor</a>) by its <a href="/wiki/ring#Noun" title="ring">ring</a> so that it <a href="/wiki/hang#Verb" title="hang">hangs</a> at the <a href="/wiki/cathead#Noun" title="cathead">cathead</a>. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cathead#Verb" title="cathead">cathead</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1922</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lynde" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Lynde">Francis Lynde</a>, <cite>Pirates’ Hope</cite>, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page <span class="None" lang="und">226</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The anchors were <b>catted</b> at the bows of the yacht <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/nautical" title="nautical">nautical</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> To flog with a <a href="/wiki/cat-o%27-nine-tails" title="cat-o'-nine-tails">cat-o'-nine-tails</a>.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> To <a href="/wiki/vomit" title="vomit">vomit</a>.</li> <li>To go <a href="/wiki/wander" title="wander">wandering</a> at <a href="/wiki/night" title="night">night</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1998</b></span>, Mary Spencer, <cite>Lady’s Wager</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">324</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">"He doesn't realize that I know," Lord Callan said, "but it's been pretty obvious that most of his <b>catting</b> about London's darker alleys has been a search for his origins.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2010</b></span>, Claude Brown, <cite>Manchild in the Promised Land</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">18</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">This was going to be my first try at <b>catting</b> out. I went looking for somebody to <b>cat</b> with me.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2012</b></span>, Valerie Hansen, <cite>Wages of Sin</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">My own dear wife could have tended to his needs if she hadn't been out <b>catting</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To <a href="/wiki/gossip" title="gossip">gossip</a> in a <a href="/wiki/catty" title="catty">catty</a> manner. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1932</b></span>, Hugh Brooke, <cite>Man Made Angry</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">134</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, <b>catted</b> together in gay groups.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1996</b></span>, Alistair Boyle, <cite>The Unlucky Seven</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">They smiled, touched, rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows, as they relived the audition and <b>catted</b> about some of their competition.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2016</b></span>, Melanie Benjamin, <cite>The Swans of Fifth Avenue</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">293</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">In the story, Lady Ina gossiped and <b>catted</b> about a parade of the rich and famous—Jackie Kennedy looking like an exaggerated version of herself, Princess Margaret so boring she made people fall asleep, Gloria Vanderbilt so ditzy she didn't recognize her first husband.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations_2">Translations</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-raise_anchor_to_cathead"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">raise anchor to cathead</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="raise anchor to cathead"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Danish: <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/katte#Danish" title="katte">katte</a></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/nostaa#Finnish" title="nostaa">nostaa</a> <a href="/wiki/ankkuri#Finnish" title="ankkuri">ankkuri</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/caponner#French" title="caponner">caponner</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/caponner" class="extiw" title="fr:caponner">(fr)</a></span></li> <li>Italian: <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/caponare#Italian" title="caponare">caponare</a></span></li> <li>Norwegian: <span class="Latn" lang="no"><a href="/wiki/katte#Norwegian" title="katte">katte</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/katte" class="extiw" title="no:katte">(no)</a></span></li> <li>Saraiki: <span class="ttbc"><sup class="ttbc">(please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>)</sup> <span class="Arab pa-Arab" lang="skr"><a href="/wiki/%D9%BB%D9%84%DB%8C#Saraiki" title="ٻلی">ٻِلّی</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://skr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%BB%D9%84%DB%8C" class="extiw" title="skr:ٻلی">(skr)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="skr-Latn" class="tr Latn">ḇillī</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></span></li> <li>Sedang: <span class="Latn" lang="sed"><a href="/w/index.php?title=yhg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="yhg (page does not exist)">yhg</a></span></li> <li>Urdu: <span class="ttbc"><sup class="ttbc">(please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>)</sup> <span class="Arab ur-Arab" lang="ur"><a href="/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C#Urdu" title="بلی">بلّی</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ur-Latn" class="tr Latn">billī</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-flog"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">flog</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="flog"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%81_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="бия с камшик (page does not exist)">бия с камшик</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">bija s kamšik</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/ruoskia#Finnish" title="ruoskia">ruoskia</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=yhdeks%C3%A4nh%C3%A4nt%C3%A4inen_kissa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="yhdeksänhäntäinen kissa (page does not exist)">yhdeksänhäntäisellä kissalla</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/fouetter#French" title="fouetter">fouetter</a> avec un <a href="/wiki/chat_%C3%A0_neuf_queues#French" title="chat à neuf queues">chat à neuf queues</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-vomit"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">vomit</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="vomit"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Afrikaans: <span class="Latn" lang="af"><a href="/wiki/opgooi#Afrikaans" title="opgooi">opgooi</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="af"><a href="/wiki/kots#Afrikaans" title="kots">kots</a></span></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Mandarin: <span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E5%91%95%E5%90%90#Mandarin" title="呕吐">呕吐</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%91%95%E5%90%90" class="extiw" title="zh:呕吐">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">ǒutù</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Danish: <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="/w/index.php?title=br%C3%A6kke_sig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="brække sig (page does not exist)">brække sig</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://da.wiktionary.org/wiki/br%C3%A6kke_sig" class="extiw" title="da:brække sig">(da)</a></span></li> <li>Estonian: <span class="Latn" lang="et"><a href="/wiki/oksendama#Estonian" title="oksendama">oksendama</a></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">slang</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/yrj%C3%B6t%C3%A4#Finnish" title="yrjötä">yrjötä</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/yrj%C3%B6t%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:yrjötä">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/d%C3%A9gobiller#French" title="dégobiller">dégobiller</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9gobiller" class="extiw" title="fr:dégobiller">(fr)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/d%C3%A9becter#French" title="débecter">débecter</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9becter" class="extiw" title="fr:débecter">(fr)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/d%C3%A9bequeter#French" title="débequeter">débequeter</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9bequeter" class="extiw" title="fr:débequeter">(fr)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/gerber#French" title="gerber">gerber</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gerber" class="extiw" title="fr:gerber">(fr)</a></span></li> <li>Polish: <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/wymiotowa%C4%87#Polish" title="wymiotować">wymiotować</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/wymiotowa%C4%87" class="extiw" title="pl:wymiotować">(pl)</a></span></li> <li>Portuguese: <span class="Latn" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/vomitar#Portuguese" title="vomitar">vomitar</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/vomitar" class="extiw" title="pt:vomitar">(pt)</a></span></li> <li>Swedish: <span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/kr%C3%A4kas#Swedish" title="kräkas">kräkas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/kr%C3%A4kas" class="extiw" title="sv:kräkas">(sv)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/spy#Swedish" title="spy">spy</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/spy" class="extiw" title="sv:spy">(sv)</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also">See also</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Burmese#English" title="Burmese">Burmese</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/feline#English" title="feline">feline</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitten#English" title="kitten">kitten</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/kitty#English" title="kitty">kitty</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Maine_Coon#English" title="Maine Coon">Maine Coon</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Manx#English" title="Manx">Manx</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/meow#English" title="meow">meow</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/miaow#English" title="miaow">miaow</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/mog#English" title="mog">mog</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/moggie#English" title="moggie">moggie</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/moggy#English" title="moggy">moggy</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/nine_lives#English" title="nine lives">nine lives</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Persian#English" title="Persian">Persian</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/purr#English" title="purr">purr</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Blue#English" title="Russian Blue">Russian Blue</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%E2%80%99s_cat#English" class="mw-redirect" title="Schrödinger’s cat">Schrödinger’s cat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Siamese#English" title="Siamese">Siamese</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tabby#English" title="tabby">tabby</a></span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Etymology 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/concatenate#English" title="concatenate">concatenate</a></i>, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/concat#English" title="concat">concat</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_2">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">cat</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cats#English" title="cats">cats</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/computing#Noun" title="computing">computing</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A program and command in <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Verb_2">Verb</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">cat</strong> (<i>third-person singular simple present</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en s-verb-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cats#English" title="cats">cats</a></b>, <i>present participle</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en ing-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catting#English" title="catting">catting</a></b>, <i>simple past and past participle</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en ed-form-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catted#English" title="catted">catted</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/computing#Noun" title="computing">computing</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> To <a href="/wiki/apply" title="apply">apply</a> the <b>cat</b> <a href="/wiki/command" title="command">command</a> to (one or more files).</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/computing#Noun" title="computing">computing</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> To <a href="/wiki/dump" title="dump">dump</a> large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_3">Etymology 3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Etymology 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abbreviations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_3">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">cat</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cats#English" title="cats">cats</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <span class="use-with-mention">A street name of the drug <a href="/wiki/methcathinone#English" title="methcathinone">methcathinone</a>.</span></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catapult#English" title="catapult">catapult</a></i></span></span>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">a carrier's bow <b>cats</b></i></div></dd></dl></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catalytic_converter#English" title="catalytic converter">catalytic converter</a></i></span></span>.</li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catamaran#English" title="catamaran">catamaran</a></i></span></span>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1966</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Brown_(director)" class="extiw" title="w:Bruce Brown (director)">Bruce Brown</a>, director, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer" class="extiw" title="w:The Endless Summer">The Endless Summer</a></cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">These <b>cats</b> are a lot of fun in the harbor, but they're a real thrill on the open ocean riding ground swells.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/category#English" title="category">category</a></i></span></span>.</li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catfish#English" title="catfish">catfish</a></i></span></span>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1913</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather" class="extiw" title="w:Willa Cather">Willa Cather</a>, chapter 2, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/O_Pioneers!" class="extiw" title="s:O Pioneers!">O Pioneers!</a></cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel <b>cat</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1916</b></span>, M. Shults, “Fishing for Yellow Cat in the Brazos”, in <cite>Field and Stream</cite>, <span class="None" lang="und">vol. 21, 478</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Fishing for <b>cat</b> is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/caterpillar#English" title="caterpillar">caterpillar</a></i></span></span>. <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> Any of a variety of earth-moving <a href="/wiki/machine" title="machine">machines</a>. (from their manufacturer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_Inc." class="extiw" title="w:Caterpillar Inc.">Caterpillar Inc.</a>)</li> <li>A ground vehicle which uses <a href="/wiki/caterpillar_track" title="caterpillar track">caterpillar tracks</a>, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.</li></ol></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#abbreviation" title="Appendix:Glossary">Abbreviation</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/computed_axial_tomography#English" title="computed axial tomography">computed axial tomography</a></i></span></span>. Often used <a href="/wiki/attributively" title="attributively">attributively</a>, as in “<a href="/wiki/CAT_scan" title="CAT scan">CAT scan</a>” or “<a href="/wiki/CT_scan" title="CT scan">CT scan</a>”.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Adjective">Adjective</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">cat</strong> (<i>not <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable" title="Appendix:Glossary">comparable</a></i>)</span> </p> <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_catastrophic" data-lang="en" data-id="catastrophic"> <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English" class="extiw" title="w:Hiberno-English">Ireland</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#colloquial" title="Appendix:Glossary">colloquial</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/catastrophic" title="catastrophic">Catastrophic</a>; <a href="/wiki/terrible" title="terrible">terrible</a>, <a href="/wiki/disastrous" title="disastrous">disastrous</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">The weather was <b>cat</b>, so they returned home early.</i></div></dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms_2">Derived terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="term-list columns-bg"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_bond#English" title="cat bond">cat bond</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cat_melodeon#English" title="cat melodeon">cat melodeon</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/J-cat#English" title="J-cat">J-cat</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Douglas Harper (<span class="None" lang="und">2001–2025</span>) “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/cat">cat</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Etymology_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Online Etymology Dictionary">Online Etymology Dictionary</a></cite>.</span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ISample-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ISample_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ISample_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Ian Sample, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/jun/29/genetics.sciencenews">DNA research identifies homeland of the domestic cat</a></i>, in <i>The Guardian</i> (29 June 2007)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-COttoni-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-COttoni_3-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-COttoni_3-1">3.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Claudio Ottoni, Wim Van Neer, Eva-Maria Geigl, et al, <i>The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world</i>, in <i>Nature: Ecology & Evolution</i>, volume 1 (19 June 2017) (doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139); summarized e.g. by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180516020404/http://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2017/06/23/where-did-cats-come-from/">PLOS</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson, <i>The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour</i> (<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1107512212" title="Special:BookSources/1107512212">→ISBN</a>), page 93</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Pictet" class="extiw" title="w:Adolphe Pictet">Pictet, Adolphe</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1859</span>) <cite>Les origines indo-européennes, ou Les Aryas primitifs: essai de paléontologie linguistique</cite>, volume I, Paris: J. Cherbuliez, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3Twog10Wmm4C&pg=PA381">page <span class="None" lang="und">381</span></a></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">Otto Keller, <i>Die antike Tierwelt</i>, vol. 1: <i>Säugetiere</i> (Leipzig, 1909), 75; Walther von Wartburg, ed. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%C3%B6sisches_Etymologisches_W%C3%B6rterbuch" class="extiw" title="w:Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch">Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch</a></i>, vol. 2 (Basel: R. G. Zbinden, 1922–1967), 520.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Qitta-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Qitta_7-0">7.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Qitta_7-1">7.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">John Huehnergard, “Qitta: Arabic Cats”, in <i>Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms</i>, ed. Beatrice Gruendler (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 407–18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">Jean-Paul Savignac, <i>Dictionnaire français-gaulois</i>, s.v. "<a href="/wiki/chat" title="chat">chat</a>" (Paris: Errance, 2004), 82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Kluge" class="extiw" title="w:Friedrich Kluge">Friedrich Kluge</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1989</span>) “Katze”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmar_Seebold" class="extiw" title="w:Elmar Seebold">Elmar Seebold</a>, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Etymologisches_W%C3%B6rterbuch_der_deutschen_Sprache" class="extiw" title="w:de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache">Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache</a></cite> [<cite><span class="e-translation"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_Dictionary_of_the_German_Language" class="extiw" title="w:Etymological Dictionary of the German Language">Etymological Dictionary of the German Language</a></span></cite>] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-11-006800-1" title="Special:BookSources/3-11-006800-1">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/etymologischeswo0000klug/page/362/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">362</span></a></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lt:Guus_Kroonen" class="extiw" title="w:lt:Guus Kroonen">Kroonen, Guus</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">2013</span>) “*kattōn-”, in <cite>Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic</cite> (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; <span class="None" lang="und">11</span>)‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/etymological-dictionary-of-proto-germanic">[1]</a></sup>, Leiden, Boston: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Publishers" class="extiw" title="w:Brill Publishers">Brill</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-18340-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-18340-7">→ISBN</a></small></span></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/act.#English" title="act.">act.</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Act.#English" title="Act.">Act.</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/TAC#English" title="TAC">TAC</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ATC#English" title="ATC">ATC</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Act#English" title="Act">Act</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/act#English" title="act">act</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/A._C._T.#English" title="A. C. T.">A. C. T.</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/A.C.T.#English" title="A.C.T.">A.C.T.</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/CTA#English" title="CTA">CTA</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tac#English" title="tac">tac</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/ACT#English" title="ACT">ACT</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/TCA#English" title="TCA">TCA</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Indonesian">Indonesian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Indonesian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/60px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/66px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/88px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div style="margin-left: 60px;">Indonesian <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/id:cat" class="extiw" title="w:id:cat">cat</a></b></div></div><span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/id:cat" class="extiw" title="w:id:cat">Wikipedia <sup>id</sup></a></span></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r83974623" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language" class="extiw" title="w:Malay language">Malay</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ms"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Malay">cat</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien" class="extiw" title="w:Hokkien">Hokkien</a></span> <i class="Hani mention" lang="nan-hbl"><a href="/wiki/%E6%BC%86#Hokkien" title="漆">漆</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="nan-hbl-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">chhat</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Indonesian_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Indonesian pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/t͡ʃat̚/</span></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhymes:Indonesian/t%CD%A1%CA%83at%CC%9A&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rhymes:Indonesian/t͡ʃat̚ (page does not exist)"><span class="IPA">-t͡ʃat̚</span></a></li> <li>Hyphenation: <span class="Latn" lang="id">cat</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_4">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="id">cat</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/paint" title="paint">paint</a> <span class="mention-gloss-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss">a substance that is <a href="/wiki/apply#English" title="apply">applied</a> as a <a href="/wiki/liquid#English" title="liquid">liquid</a> or <a href="/wiki/paste#English" title="paste">paste</a>, and dries into a <a href="/wiki/solid#English" title="solid">solid</a> <a href="/wiki/coating#English" title="coating">coating</a> that <a href="/wiki/protect#English" title="protect">protects</a> or adds <a href="/wiki/color#English" title="color">color</a>/<a href="/wiki/colour#English" title="colour">colour</a> to an object or surface to which it has been applied</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren">)</span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb_3">Verb</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="id">cat</strong> (<i>active</i> <b class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/mengecat#Indonesian" title="mengecat">mengecat</a></b>, <i>passive</i> <b class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/dicat#Indonesian" title="dicat">dicat</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> to <a href="/wiki/paint" title="paint">paint</a> <ol><li>to <a href="/wiki/apply" title="apply">apply</a> paint to</li> <li>to apply in the <a href="/wiki/manner" title="manner">manner</a> that paint is applied</li> <li>to <a href="/wiki/cover" title="cover">cover</a> (something) with <a href="/wiki/spots" title="spots">spots</a> of colour, like paint</li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_3">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="term-list columns-bg"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/bercat#Indonesian" title="bercat">bercat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/catan#Indonesian" title="catan">catan</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=pengecat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="pengecat (page does not exist)">pengecat</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=pengecatan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="pengecatan (page does not exist)">pengecatan</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_air&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat air (page does not exist)">cat air</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_alis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat alis (page does not exist)">cat alis</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_bakar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat bakar (page does not exist)">cat bakar</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_batik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat batik (page does not exist)">cat batik</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_bibir&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat bibir (page does not exist)">cat bibir</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/cat_kuku#Indonesian" title="cat kuku">cat kuku</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_lateks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat lateks (page does not exist)">cat lateks</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_minyak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat minyak (page does not exist)">cat minyak</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_rambut&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat rambut (page does not exist)">cat rambut</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_semprot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat semprot (page does not exist)">cat semprot</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_wajah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat wajah (page does not exist)">cat wajah</a></span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kbbi.kemdikbud.go.id/entri/cat">cat</a>” in <cite>Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia</cite>, Jakarta: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_Language_Development_and_Cultivation" class="extiw" title="w:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation">Agency for Language Development and Cultivation</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Education,_Culture,_Research,_and_Technology" class="extiw" title="w:Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology">Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia</a>, 2016.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Irish">Irish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Irish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gatto_europeo4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Gatto_europeo4.jpg/250px-Gatto_europeo4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Gatto_europeo4.jpg/330px-Gatto_europeo4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Gatto_europeo4.jpg/500px-Gatto_europeo4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1980" data-file-height="2440" /></a><figcaption><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms_2">Alternative forms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cut#Irish" title="cut">cut</a></span> <span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht_Cois_Fharraige" class="extiw" title="w:Gaeltacht Cois Fharraige">Cois Fharraige</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_4">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Irish" class="extiw" title="w:Old Irish">Old Irish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="sga"><a href="/wiki/catt#Old_Irish" title="catt">catt</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Celtic language">Proto-Celtic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="cel-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kattos" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kattos">*kattos</a></i>, from either <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/cattus#Latin" title="cattus">cattus</a></i> or <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz">*kattuz</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_3">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munster_Irish" class="extiw" title="w:Munster Irish">Munster</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Irish_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Irish pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kɑt̪ˠ/</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:Aran Islands">Aran</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Irish_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Irish pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kɑt̪ˠ/</span>, <span class="IPA">/kɔt̪ˠ/</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht_Cois_Fharraige" class="extiw" title="w:Gaeltacht Cois Fharraige">Cois Fharraige</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Irish_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Irish pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kʊt̪ˠ/</span><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">corresponding to the form <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cut#Irish" title="cut">cut</a></i></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht_Iorrais_agus_Acaill" class="extiw" title="w:Gaeltacht Iorrais agus Acaill">Mayo</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Irish" class="extiw" title="w:Ulster Irish">Ulster</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Irish_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Irish pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kat̪ˠ/</span><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_5">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="ga">cat</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> (<i>genitive singular</i> <b class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait#Irish" title="cait">cait</a></b>, <i>nominative plural</i> <b class="Latn" lang="ga"><a 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.inflection-table-brown th.secondary,.mw-parser-output .inflection-table th.secondary.inflection-table-brown{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-brown-1)}.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-brown th,.mw-parser-output .inflection-table th.inflection-table-brown{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-brown-2)}.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-brown th.outer,.mw-parser-output .inflection-table th.outer.inflection-table-brown{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-brown-4)}.mw-parser-output tr.inflection-table-brown-darker td,.mw-parser-output td.inflection-table-brown-darker{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-brown-1)!important}</style> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-box inflection-table-narrow inflection-table-collapsible inflection-table-collapsed no-vc tr-alongside" style="width: fit-content"> <table class="inflection-box-content"> <caption class="inflection-table-title">Declension of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">cat</i> (<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Irish_first-declension_nouns" title="Appendix:Irish first-declension nouns">first declension</a>) </caption> <tbody><tr> <td> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-green inflection-table-no-title" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r84361117" /> <table class="inflection-table"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" class="outer">bare forms </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th>singular </th> <th>plural </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/nominative" title="nominative">nominative</a> </th> <td>cat </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait#Irish" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/vocative" title="vocative">vocative</a> </th> <td>a <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/chait#Irish" title="chait">chait</a></span> </td> <td>a <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/chata#Irish" title="chata">chata</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/genitive" title="genitive">genitive</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait#Irish" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/dative" title="dative">dative</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait#Irish" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-green inflection-table-no-title" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r84361117" /> <table class="inflection-table"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" class="outer">forms with the <a href="/wiki/definite_article" title="definite article">definite article</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th>singular </th> <th>plural </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/nominative" title="nominative">nominative</a> </th> <td>an <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td>na <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait#Irish" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/genitive" title="genitive">genitive</a> </th> <td>an <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/chait#Irish" title="chait">chait</a></span> </td> <td>na <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/gcat#Irish" title="gcat">gcat</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/dative" title="dative">dative</a> </th> <td>leis an <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/gcat#Irish" title="gcat">gcat</a></span><br />don <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/chat#Irish" title="chat">chat</a></span> </td> <td>leis na <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait#Irish" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_4">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cait%C3%ADn#Irish" title="caitín">caitín</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">catkin</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cat_crainn#Irish" title="cat crainn">cat crainn</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">pine marten</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat_Manannach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cat Manannach (page does not exist)">cat Manannach</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">Manx cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cat_mara#Irish" title="cat mara">cat mara</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">catfish</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/catach#Irish" title="catach">catach</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">curly-haired</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span>, <span class="ann-pos">adjective</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/catachas#Irish" title="catachas">catachas</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">heat (in a cat)</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/cat%C3%A1n#Irish" title="catán">catán</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cats%C3%BAil&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="catsúil (page does not exist)">catsúil</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">ogle</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat%C3%BAil&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="catúil (page does not exist)">catúil</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">feline</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span>, <span class="ann-pos">adjective</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=fearchat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="fearchat (page does not exist)">fearchat</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">tomcat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/liopardchat#Irish" title="liopardchat">liopardchat</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">leopard-cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mutation">Mutation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Mutation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-green" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r84361117" /> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Irish_mutations" title="Appendix:Irish mutations">Mutated forms</a> of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">cat</i> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>radical </th> <th>lenition </th> <th>eclipsis </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/chat#Irish" title="chat">chat</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/gcat#Irish" title="gcat">gcat</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="inflection-table-notes"> <p style="font-size:85%;"><i>Note:</i> Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.<br />All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.</p> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_2">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r79053813">.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-lower-alpha ol{list-style:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-upper-alpha ol{list-style:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-lower-roman ol{list-style:lower-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-upper-roman ol{list-style:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-lower-greek ol{list-style:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-disc ol{list-style:disc}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-square ol{list-style:square}.mw-parser-output .reflist.list-style-none ol{list-style:none}.mw-parser-output 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.mw-references-wrap{column-count:5}</style><div class="reflist font-size-smaller"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">2019</span>), “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dil.ie/8392">catt</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Irish_Language" class="extiw" title="w:Dictionary of the Irish Language">eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</a></cite></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Sjoestedt" class="extiw" title="w:Marie-Louise Sjoestedt">Sjoestedt, M. L.</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1931</span>) <cite><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Phon%C3%A9tique_d%E2%80%99un_parler_irlandais_de_Kerry" class="extiw" title="s:fr:Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry">Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry</a></cite> [<cite><span class="e-translation">Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry</span></cite>] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, <span class="None" lang="und"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Phon%C3%A9tique_d%E2%80%99un_parler_irlandais_de_Kerry/2-3#p126" class="extiw" title="s:fr:Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry/2-3">§ 126</a></span>, page <span class="None" lang="und"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Page:Phon%C3%A9tique_d%27un_parler_irlandais_de_Kerry.pdf/85" class="extiw" title="s:fr:Page:Phonétique d'un parler irlandais de Kerry.pdf/85">67</a></span></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Nikolaus_Finck" class="extiw" title="w:Franz Nikolaus Finck">Finck, F. N.</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1899</span>) <cite><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/de:Die_araner_mundart" class="extiw" title="s:de:Die araner mundart">Die araner mundart</a></cite> [<cite><span class="e-translation">The Aran Dialect</span></cite>] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page <span class="None" lang="und"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/de:Seite:Die_araner_mundart.djvu/390" class="extiw" title="s:de:Seite:Die araner mundart.djvu/390">148</a></span></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Bhaldraithe" class="extiw" title="w:Tomás de Bhaldraithe">de Bhaldraithe, Tomás</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1977</span>) <cite>Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht</cite> [<cite><span class="e-translation">The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence</span></cite>] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>, page <span class="None" lang="und">313</span></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (<span class="None" lang="und">1968</span>) <cite>The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study</cite>, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 112, page <span class="None" lang="und">27</span></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Crosby_Quiggin" class="extiw" title="w:Edmund Crosby Quiggin">Quiggin, E. C.</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1906</span>) <cite><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dialect_of_Donegal" class="extiw" title="s:A Dialect of Donegal">A Dialect of Donegal</a></cite>, Cambridge University Press, <span class="None" lang="und"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dialect_of_Donegal/The_Consonants#s381" class="extiw" title="s:A Dialect of Donegal/The Consonants">§ 381</a></span>, page <span class="None" lang="und"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Quiggin_Dialect_of_Donegal_0128.png" class="extiw" title="s:Page:Quiggin Dialect of Donegal 0128.png">128</a></span></span></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading_2">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_%C3%93_D%C3%B3naill" class="extiw" title="w:Niall Ó Dónaill">Ó Dónaill, Niall</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1977</span>) “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/cat">cat</a>”, in <cite>Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla</cite>, Dublin: An Gúm, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781857910384" title="Special:BookSources/9781857910384">→ISBN</a></small></span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_S._Dinneen" class="extiw" title="w:Patrick S. Dinneen">Dinneen, Patrick S.</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1904</span>) “cat”, in <cite>Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla</cite>, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/irishenglishdict00dinniala/page/121/mode/2up?view=theater">page <span class="None" lang="und">121</span></a></span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Bhaldraithe" class="extiw" title="w:Tomás de Bhaldraithe">de Bhaldraithe, Tomás</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1959</span>) “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/cat">cat</a>”, in <cite>English-Irish Dictionary</cite>, An Gúm</span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.focloir.ie/en/search/ei/adv?q=cat&inlanguage=ga">cat</a>”, in <cite>New English-Irish Dictionary</cite>, Foras na Gaeilge, <span class="None" lang="und">2013-2025</span></span></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Malay">Malay</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Malay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg/250px-GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg/330px-GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg/500px-GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>cat</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_5">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#loanword" title="Appendix:Glossary">Borrowed</a> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien" class="extiw" title="w:Hokkien">Hokkien</a></span> <i class="Hani mention" lang="nan-hbl"><a href="/wiki/%E6%BC%86#Hokkien" title="漆">漆</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="nan-hbl-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">chhat</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_4">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Malay_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Malay pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/t͡ʃat/</span></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhymes:Malay/t%CD%A1%CA%83at&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rhymes:Malay/t͡ʃat (page does not exist)"><span class="IPA">-t͡ʃat</span></a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:Malay/at" title="Rhymes:Malay/at"><span class="IPA">-at</span></a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410" /><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Malay" class="extiw" title="w:Malaysian Malay">Malaysia</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_3" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="Ms-MY-cat.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/Ms-MY-cat.ogg/Ms-MY-cat.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Ms-MY-cat.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:Ms-MY-cat.ogg" title="File:Ms-MY-cat.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_6">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="ms">cat</strong> (<i>Jawi spelling</i> <b class="Arab ms-Arab" lang="ms"><a href="/wiki/%DA%86%D8%AA#Malay" title="چت">چت</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/paint" title="paint">paint</a> <span class="mention-gloss-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss">substance</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren">)</span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Affixed_terms">Affixed terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Affixed terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/bercat" title="bercat">bercat</a></li> <li>mengecat <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#active_voice" title="Appendix:Glossary">active voice</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span>: to paint <ul><li>dicat <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#passive_voice" title="Appendix:Glossary">passive voice</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span>: to be painted</li></ul></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="ms"><a href="/wiki/catan#Malay" title="catan">catan</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/painting" title="painting">painting</a> <span class="mention-gloss-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss">an artwork in the form of a painted picture</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren">)</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=pengecatan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="pengecatan (page does not exist)">pengecatan</a>: the <a href="/wiki/action" title="action">action</a> of applying paint to something (e.g. a surface, etc.)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=pengecat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="pengecat (page does not exist)">pengecat</a>: <a href="/wiki/painter" title="painter">painter</a> <span class="mention-gloss-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss">a person whose job is painting buildings</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Descendants">Descendants</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Descendants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="desc-arr" title="inherited">></span> Indonesian: <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Indonesian">cat</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">inherited</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r68481116">.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}</style></li> <li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Tausug: <span class="Latn" lang="tsg"><a href="/wiki/s%C4%81t#Tausug" title="sāt">sāt</a></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116" /></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading_3">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?keyword=cat">cat</a>” in <cite>Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre</cite>, Kuala Lumpur: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewan_Bahasa_dan_Pustaka" class="extiw" title="w:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka">Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka</a>, 2017.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_English">Middle English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Middle English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms_3">Alternative forms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/catt#Middle_English" title="catt">catt</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/catte#Middle_English" title="catte">catte</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/cate#Middle_English" title="cate">cate</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/kat#Middle_English" title="kat">kat</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/katte#Middle_English" title="katte">katte</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/kaat#Middle_English" title="kaat">kaat</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_6">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/catt#Old_English" title="catt">catt</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">male cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/catte#Old_English" title="catte">catte</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">female cat</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, this is in turn from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz">*kattuz</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_5">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Middle_English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Middle English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kat/</span>, <span class="IPA">/ˈkat(ə)/</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_7">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="enm">cat</strong></span> (<i>plural</i> <b><span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/cattes#Middle_English" title="cattes">cattes</a></span></b>) </p> <ol><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">cat</a></span> (feline)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Synonyms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/badde#Middle_English" title="badde">badde</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Descendants_2">Descendants</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Descendants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>English: <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">cat</a></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116" /></li> <li>Scots: <span class="Latn" lang="sco"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Scots">cat</a></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116" /></li> <li>Yola: <span class="Latn" lang="yol"><a href="/wiki/kaud%C3%A8s#Yola" title="kaudès">kaudès</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="yol"><a href="/wiki/kaudes#Yola" title="kaudes">kaudes</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="yol"><a href="/wiki/kaudd%C3%A8s#Yola" title="kauddès">kauddès</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">plural</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116" /></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="References_3">References</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED6929">cat, <i>n.</i></a>”, in <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English Dictionary">MED Online</a></cite>, Ann Arbor, Mich.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="w:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">2007</span></span></span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Norman">Norman</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Norman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_7">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norman" class="extiw" title="w:Old Norman">Old Northern French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fro"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Old_French">cat</a></i> (variant of <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" class="extiw" title="w:Old French">Old French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fro"><a href="/wiki/chat#Old_French" title="chat">chat</a></i>) from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/cattus#Latin" title="cattus">cattus</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_6">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_phonology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Norman phonology">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ka/</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410" /><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey" class="extiw" title="w:Jersey">Jersey</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_4" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="Jer-cat.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Jer-cat.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/Jer-cat.ogg/Jer-cat.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:Jer-cat.ogg" title="File:Jer-cat.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_8">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="nrf">cat</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-nrf p-form-of" lang="nrf"><a href="/wiki/cats#Norman" title="cats">cats</a></b>, <i>feminine</i> <b class="Latn" lang="nrf"><a href="/wiki/catte#Norman" title="catte">catte</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">cat</a></span> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a></i> <span class="None" lang="und"><b>1830</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M%C3%A9tivier" class="extiw" title="w:George Métivier">George Métivier</a>, <cite>Lamentations de Damaris</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="nrf">Où'est donc qu'j'iron, mé et mes puches / Ma <b>catte</b>, et l'reste de l'écu?</span><dl><dd><small>(please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Quotations#Adding_translations_to_quotations" title="Wiktionary:Quotations">add an English translation</a> of this quotation)</small></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1903</b></span>, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in <cite>Guernsey Folk Lore</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029911710/page/514/mode/1up?view=theater">[4]</a></sup>, page <span class="None" lang="und">514</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="nrf">Si ùn <b>cat</b> s'amord au lard, nou ne sairait l'en d's'amordre.</span><dl><dd><span class="e-translation">If a <b>cat</b> takes a liking for bacon, you can't break her of it.</span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2006</b></span>, Peggy Collenette, “D'la gâche de Guernési”, in <cite>P'tites Lures Guernésiaises</cite>, Cromwell Press, published <span class="None" lang="und">2006</span>, page <span class="None" lang="und">20</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="nrf">Ils d'visirent pour enne haeure, mais la Louise était pas chagrinaïe au tour sa pâte, pasqué a savait que le <b>cat</b> était à gardaïr la pâte caoude.</span><dl><dd><span class="e-translation">They talked for an hour, but Louise was not worried about her dough, because she knew that the <b>cat</b> was keeping the dough warm.</span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey" class="extiw" title="w:Jersey">Jersey</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:common_dab" class="extiw" title="w:en:common dab">common dab</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Limanda_limanda" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Limanda limanda"><i>Limanda limanda</i></a></span>)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_5">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="nrf"><a href="/wiki/catchi%C3%A9the#Norman" title="catchiéthe">catchiéthe</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">cat-flap</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Old_French">Old French</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Old French"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_9">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="fro">cat</strong> <span class="ib-content qualifier-content">oblique singular</span>, <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> (<i>oblique plural</i> <b class="Latn" lang="fro"><a href="/wiki/caz#Old_French" title="caz">caz</a></b> <i>or</i> <b class="Latn" lang="fro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=catz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="catz (page does not exist)">catz</a></b>, <i>nominative singular</i> <b class="Latn" lang="fro"><a href="/wiki/caz#Old_French" title="caz">caz</a></b> <i>or</i> <b class="Latn" lang="fro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=catz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="catz (page does not exist)">catz</a></b>, <i>nominative plural</i> <b class="Latn" lang="fro"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picardy" class="extiw" title="w:Picardy">Picardy</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language" class="extiw" title="w:Anglo-Norman language">Anglo-Norman</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Alternative form of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="fro"><a href="/wiki/chat#Old_French" title="chat">chat</a></i></span></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Romanian">Romanian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=61" title="Edit section: Romanian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_8">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=62" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#loanword" title="Appendix:Glossary">Borrowed</a> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish" class="extiw" title="w:Ottoman Turkish">Ottoman Turkish</a></span> <i class="Arab ota-Arab mention" lang="ota"><a href="/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA#Ottoman_Turkish" title="قات">قات</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ota-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">kat</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_7">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=63" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Romanian_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Romanian pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/kat/</span></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:Romanian/at" title="Rhymes:Romanian/at"><span class="IPA">-at</span></a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_10">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=64" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="ro">cat</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-ro p-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/caturi#Romanian" title="caturi">caturi</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dated" title="Appendix:Glossary">dated</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/floor" title="floor">floor</a> (<a href="/wiki/storey" title="storey">storey</a>) <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1892</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbu_%C8%98tef%C4%83nescu_Delavrancea" class="extiw" title="w:Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea">Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ro:Domnul_Vucea" class="extiw" title="s:ro:Domnul Vucea">Mr. Vucea</a></cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="ro">Mi-aduc bine aminte că unul sărea de la al cincilea <b>cat</b>, și c-o mână își ținea pălăria. Grozav îi era de pălărie!</span><dl><dd><span class="e-translation">I remember well that one was jumping from the fifth <b>floor</b>, and was holding his hat with one hand. That proud was he of the hat!</span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension_2">Declension</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=65" title="Edit section: Declension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-yellow inflection-table-collapsible inflection-table-collapsed no-vc" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r84361117" /> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title">Declension of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ro"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></i> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th class="outer"> </th> <th colspan="2" class="outer">singular </th> <td class="separator" rowspan="999"> </td> <th colspan="2" class="outer">plural </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th>indefinite </th> <th>definite </th> <th>indefinite </th> <th>definite </th></tr> <tr> <th>nominative-accusative </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro indefinite|nominative//accusative|s-form-of" lang="ro"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro definite|nominative//accusative|s-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=catul&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="catul (page does not exist)">catul</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro indefinite|nominative//accusative|p-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/caturi#Romanian" title="caturi">caturi</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro definite|nominative//accusative|p-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=caturile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="caturile (page does not exist)">caturile</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>genitive-dative </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro indefinite|genitive//dative|s-form-of" lang="ro"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro definite|genitive//dative|s-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=catului&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="catului (page does not exist)">catului</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro indefinite|genitive//dative|p-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/caturi#Romanian" title="caturi">caturi</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-ro definite|genitive//dative|p-form-of" lang="ro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=caturilor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="caturilor (page does not exist)">caturilor</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>vocative </th> <td colspan="2"><span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/catule#Romanian" title="catule">catule</a></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=caturilor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="caturilor (page does not exist)">caturilor</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scots">Scots</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=66" title="Edit section: Scots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms_4">Alternative forms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=67" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="sco"><a href="/wiki/kat#Scots" title="kat">kat</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="sco"><a href="/wiki/ket#Scots" title="ket">ket</a></span> <span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_dialects" class="extiw" title="w:Ulster Scots dialects">Ulster</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_9">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=68" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Scots" class="extiw" title="w:Middle Scots">Middle Scots</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gmw-msc"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_Scots">cat</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Scots" class="extiw" title="w:Early Scots">Early Scots</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/catte#Middle_English" title="catte">catte</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/catte#Middle_English" title="catte">catte</a></i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_English">cat</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/catte#Old_English" title="catte">catte</a></i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang"><a href="/wiki/catt#Old_English" title="catt">catt</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-West_Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-West Germanic language">Proto-West Germanic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gmw-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/kattu" title="Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kattu">*kattu</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz">*kattuz</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_11">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=69" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="sco">cat</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn" lang="sco"><a href="/wiki/cats#Scots" title="cats">cats</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><a href="#English">cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Felis_catus#Translingual" title="Felis catus"><i>Felis catus</i></a></span>)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scottish_Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=70" title="Edit section: Scottish Gaelic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg/250px-Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg/330px-Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg/500px-Stray_calico_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="1267" /></a><figcaption>Cat.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_10">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=71" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Irish" class="extiw" title="w:Old Irish">Old Irish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="sga"><a href="/wiki/catt#Old_Irish" title="catt">catt</a></i>, borrowed from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Late Latin">Late Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/cattus#Latin" title="cattus">cattus</a></i>. Cognates include <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Irish language">Irish</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Irish">cat</a></i> and <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_language" class="extiw" title="w:Manx language">Manx</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="gv"><a href="/wiki/kayt#Manx" title="kayt">kayt</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_8">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=72" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Scottish_Gaelic_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Scottish Gaelic pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ˈkʰaʰt̪/</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, <span class="IPA">/ˈkʰaht̪/</span><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonsay" class="extiw" title="w:Colonsay">Colonsay</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay" class="extiw" title="w:Islay">Islay</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Scottish_Gaelic_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Scottish Gaelic pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ˈkʰɵht̪/</span><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, <span class="IPA">[kʏ̞ɸd̪̊]</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hyphenation: <span class="Latn" lang="gd">cat</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_12">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=73" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="gd">cat</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> (<i>genitive singular</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-gd gen|s-form-of" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a></b>, <i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-gd p-form-of" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><a href="#English">cat</a> (<span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Felis_catus#Translingual" title="Felis catus"><i>Felis catus</i></a></span>)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension_3">Declension</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=74" title="Edit section: Declension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-blue inflection-table-collapsible inflection-table-collapsed no-vc" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r84361117" /> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title">Declension of <i>cat</i> (type I masculine noun) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th class="outer" colspan="3">indefinite </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th>singular </th> <th>plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>nominative </th> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>genitive </th> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/chat#Scottish_Gaelic" title="chat">chat</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>dative </th> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a>; <a href="/w/index.php?title=cataibh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cataibh (page does not exist)">cataibh</a><sup>✝</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="separator" colspan="999"> </td></tr> <tr> <th class="outer" colspan="3">definite </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th>singular </th> <th>plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>nominative </th> <td>(an) <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td> <td>(na) <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>genitive </th> <td>(a') <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/chait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="chait">chait</a></span> </td> <td>(nan) <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>dative </th> <td>(a') <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/chat#Scottish_Gaelic" title="chat">chat</a></span> </td> <td>(na) <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="cait">cait</a>; <a href="/w/index.php?title=cataibh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cataibh (page does not exist)">cataibh</a><sup>✝</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>vocative </th> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/chait#Scottish_Gaelic" title="chait">chait</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/chata#Scottish_Gaelic" title="chata">chata</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="inflection-table-notes"> <p><sup>✝</sup> obsolete form, used until the 19th century </p> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_6">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=75" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="term-list columns-bg"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/cl%C3%B2imh-chat#Scottish_Gaelic" title="clòimh-chat">clòimh-chat</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mutation_2">Mutation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=76" title="Edit section: Mutation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-blue" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r84361117" /> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Appendix:Scottish_Gaelic_mutations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Appendix:Scottish Gaelic mutations (page does not exist)">Mutation</a> of <i class="Latn mention" lang="gd">cat</i> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>radical </th> <th><a href="/wiki/lenition" title="lenition">lenition</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><strong class="selflink">cat</strong></span></td> <td><span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/chat#Scottish_Gaelic" title="chat">chat</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="inflection-table-notes"> <p style="font-size: 85%"><i>Note:</i> Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.<br />All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.</p> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_4">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=77" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r79053813" /><div class="reflist font-size-smaller"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne_Oftedal" class="extiw" title="w:Magne Oftedal">Oftedal, M.</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1956</span>) <cite>A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis</cite>, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap</span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">John MacPherson (1945) <cite>The Gaelic dialect of North Uist</cite> (Thesis)‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/28515">[2]</a></sup>, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Borgstr%C3%B8m" class="extiw" title="w:Carl Borgstrøm">Borgstrøm, Carl Hj.</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">1937</span>) <cite>The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides</cite>, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap</span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Seumas Grannd (<span class="None" lang="und">2000</span>) <cite>The Gaelic of Islay: A Comparative Study</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/gaelicofislaycom0000gran">[3]</a></sup>, Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0952391147" title="Special:BookSources/0952391147">→ISBN</a></small></span></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Scouller, Alastair (<span class="None" lang="und">2017</span>) <cite>The Gaelic Dialect of Colonsay (PhD thesis)</cite>, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page <span class="None" lang="und">103</span></span></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading_4">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=cat&action=edit&section=78" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Mark" class="extiw" title="w:Colin Mark">Colin Mark</a> (<span class="None" lang="und">2003</span>) “cat”, in <cite>The Gaelic-English dictionary</cite>, London: Routledge, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-203-22259-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-203-22259-8">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" 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