hacat
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
hacat ?
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Seri edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hacat (article com, plural hácataj)
Usage notes edit
This is the most generic term for “shark”. Names of particular species of sharks are often compounds of this word, e.g. hacat cmaam (“diamond stingray”, literally “female shark”), hacat coospoj (“leopard shark”, literally “painted shark”), hacat coospoj caacoj (“tiger shark”, literally “big painted shark”), hacat cooxp (“great white shark”, literally “white shark”), etc.
References edit
- Moser, Mary B., Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricaana iitom [Seri-Spanish-English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Hermosillo: Plaza y Valdés Editores, →ISBN, page 310.