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Cat Translated

By Paige
Cat Translated

Image from Llima

Cats have had a huge impact on almost every culture on the planet in some form or another.

Different Strokes For Different Folks

For some the word cat conjures up images of scratching a purring feline under the chin and for others a cat is a dangerous predator best given a wide berth.

The domestic cat breeds we appreciate and preserve get their variety from a number of different places, habitats and genetics.

Cats are found all over the world, so we thought it would be fun to show some translations of the word Cat


Afrikaans – kat
Albanian – macja
Arabic – Cat in Arabic
Bulgarian – Cat in Bulgarian
Catalan – gat
Cherokee – we-sa
Chinese – Cat in Chinese
Croation – ma?ka
Czech – ko?ka
Danish – kat
Dutch – kat
Estonian – kass
Filipino – pusa
Finnish – kissa
French – chat
Galacian – gato
German – katze
Greek – Cat in Greek
Hawaiian – popoki
Hebrew – Cat in Hebrew
Hindi – Cat in Hindi
Hungarian – macska
Icelandic – köttur
Indonesian – kucing
Italian – gatto
Japanese – Cat in Japanese
Korean – Cat in Korean
Latvian – kais
Lithuanian – kat
Maltese – qattus
Norwegian – katt
Polish – kot
Portuguese – gato
Romanian – Male pisic & Female pisica
Russian – Cat in Russian
Scottish – moggie
Serbian – Cat in Serbian
Slovak – ma?ka
Spanish – gato
Swedish – katt
Thai – Cat in Thai
Turkish – kedi
Ukranian – Cat in Ukranian
Vietnamese – con mèo
Welsh – cath

Although we did our research to find these translations, we were at the mercy of online translation services and language pages across the web. If anyone has a better translation, or a language we forgot please fill us in.

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