cat

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , from. Further etymology is unclear.

The Germanic word is generally thought to be from (c. 350, Palladius), from  (c. 75 A.D., Martial), from an  language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago, and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago ), especially after they became popular in Egypt. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) and "Nouba" (Nobiin)  as possible sources or cognates, but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from. Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of 🇨🇬 suffixed with feminine, but John Huehnergard says "the source [...] was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."

It may be a Wanderwort. 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 and  from.

Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, as well as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and from the same ultimate source 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and more distantly 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic (from Berber, probably from Latin).

Noun

 * 1) An animal of the family :
 * 2) A domesticated species  of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
 * 3) Any similar animal of the family, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
 * 4)  The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
 * 5) A person:
 * 6)  A spiteful or angry woman.
 * 7) An enthusiast or player of jazz.
 * 8)  A person (usually male).
 * 9) * 1973 December, "Books Noted", discussing A Dialogue (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in Black World, Johnson Publishing Company, 77.
 * 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 cat; I knew that.
 * 1)  A prostitute.
 * 2)  A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
 * 3)  A sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
 * 4)  The game of trap ball.
 * 5)  The trap in that game.
 * 6)  The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
 * 7)  A vagina or vulva.
 * 8) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
 * 9)   A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
 * 1) An enthusiast or player of jazz.
 * 2)  A person (usually male).
 * 3) * 1973 December, "Books Noted", discussing A Dialogue (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in Black World, Johnson Publishing Company, 77.
 * 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 cat; I knew that.
 * 1)  A prostitute.
 * 2)  A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
 * 3)  A sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
 * 4)  The game of trap ball.
 * 5)  The trap in that game.
 * 6)  The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
 * 7)  A vagina or vulva.
 * 8) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
 * 9)   A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
 * 1)  A prostitute.
 * 2)  A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
 * 3)  A sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
 * 4)  The game of trap ball.
 * 5)  The trap in that game.
 * 6)  The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
 * 7)  A vagina or vulva.
 * 8) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
 * 9)   A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
 * 1)  The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
 * 2)  A vagina or vulva.
 * 3) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
 * 4)   A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
 * 1) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
 * 2)   A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
 * 1)   A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

Verb

 * 1)  To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
 * 2)  To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
 * 3)  To vomit.
 * 4) To go wandering at night.
 * 5) To gossip in a catty manner.
 * 1) To gossip in a catty manner.
 * 1) To gossip in a catty manner.
 * 1) To gossip in a catty manner.
 * 1) To gossip in a catty manner.

Translations

 * Danish: katte
 * Finnish: nostaa ankkuri
 * French:
 * Italian: caponare
 * Norwegian:
 * Saraiki:
 * Sedang: yhg
 * Urdu:


 * Bulgarian: бия с камшик
 * Finnish: ruoskia yhdeksänhäntäisellä kissalla
 * French: fouetter avec un chat à neuf queues


 * Afrikaans: opgooi, kots
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Estonian: oksendama
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 2
From, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

Verb

 * 1)  To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
 * 2)  To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

Etymology 3
Abbreviations.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer )
 * 2) A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
 * 3)  Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
 * 1)  Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer )
 * 2) A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
 * 3)  Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
 * 1)  Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer )
 * 2) A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
 * 3)  Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
 * 1)  Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer )
 * 2) A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
 * 3)  Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
 * 1)  Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.

Adjective

 * 1)   Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

Derived terms

 * cat melodeon
 * cat bond
 * J-cat

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) paint

Verb

 * 1)  to paint
 * 2) to apply paint to.
 * 3) to apply in the manner that paint is applied.
 * 4) to cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

Etymology
From, from or from Latin cattus, possibly even 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) paint substance

Affixed terms

 * bercat
 * mengecat : to paint
 * dicat : to be painted
 * : painting an artwork in the form of a painted picture
 * pengecatan: the action of applying paint to something (e.g. a surface, etc.)
 * pengecat: painter a person whose job is paining buildings

Etymology
From, , this is in turn from.

Noun

 * 1)  (feline)

Etymology
From (variant of ) from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  floor (storey)

Etymology
From, from , from , , from , , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) cat

Etymology
From, borrowed from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cat