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قطو

Gulf Arabic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Latin cattus;[1] it may have been borrowed from Portuguese gato in the context of the Portuguese presence in the region. Regular sound changes from Arabic قِطّ m (qiṭṭ, “he-cat”) would have yielded *قِط or *گِط.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

قطو • (gaṭu) m (plural قطاوة (gṭāwa), feminine قطوة (gaṭwa))

  1. a he-cat, a male cat.
    Synonym: عتوي (ʕitwi)

References edit

  1. ^ Clive Holes, editor (2018 September 12), “The Arabic dialects of the Gulf”, in Arabic Historical Dialectology: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches (Oxford Studies in Historical and Diachronic Linguistics; 31), Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 117.
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