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English

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: k?t, IPA^(key): /kæt/, [k?æt], [k?æt?]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kat/
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophones: Kat, khat, qat

Etymology 1

From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Alternative forms

• catte (obsolete)

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. An animal of the family Felidae:

   Synonym: felid

   1. A domesticated species (Felis catus) or subspecies (Felis silvestris catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8^thc.]

      • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—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.

      Synonyms: puss, pussy, malkin, kitty, pussy-cat, grimalkin; see also Thesaurus:cat

   2. Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, etc.
      • 1985 January, George Laycock, "Our American Lion", in Boy Scouts of America, Boys' Life, 28.

        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 cat.
2. A person:
   1. (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman. [from early 13^thc.]
      • 1835 September, anonymous, "The Pigs", in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 9, 156.

        But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.

      Synonym: bitch

   2. An enthusiast or player of jazz.
   3. (slang) A person (usually male).
      • 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.

      Synonyms: bloke, chap, cove, dude, fellow, fella, guy

   4. (slang) A prostitute. [from at least early 15^thc.]
3. (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
4. (chiefly nautical) Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
5. (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
6. (archaic, uncountable) The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
   1. The trap of the game of "trap and ball".
7. (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
8. (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
9. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
10. (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

    Synonyms: tortoise, Welsh cat

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:cat, Thesaurus:man.

• (any member of the suborder (sometimes superfamily) Feliformia or Feloidea): feliform ("cat-like" carnivoran), feloid (compare Caniformia, Canoidea)
• (any member of the subfamily Felinae, genera Puma, Acinonyx, Lynx, Leopardus, and Felis)): feline cat, a feline
• (any member of the subfamily Pantherinae, genera Panthera, Uncia and Neofelis): pantherine cat, a pantherine
• (technically, all members of the genus Panthera): panther (i.e. tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard), (narrow sense) panther (i.e. black panther)
• (any member of the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae, genera Smilodon, Homotherium, Miomachairodus, etc.): Smilodontini, Machairodontini (Homotherini), Metailurini, "saber-toothed cat" (saber-tooth)

Hyponyms

• (domestic species): housecat, malkin, kitten, mouser, tomcat

Derived terms

Translations

See cat/translations § Noun.

Verb

cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)

1. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
   • 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, page 226:

     The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht …

2. (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
3. (slang) To vomit.
4. To go wandering at night.
5. To gossip in a catty manner.

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. Abbreviation of catamaran.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of catenate.

Noun

cat (plural cats)

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

Verb

cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)

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

Etymology 4

Possibly a shortened form of catastrophic.

Adjective

cat (not comparable)

1. (Ireland, informal) Terrible, disastrous.

Usage notes

This usage is common in speech but rarely appears in writing.

Etymology 5

Shortened from methcathinone.

Noun

cat (uncountable)

1. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.

Etymology 6

Shortened from catapult.

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. (military, naval) A catapult.

Etymology 7

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. Abbreviation of category.

Etymology 8

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. Abbreviation of catfish.
   • 1916, M. Shults, "Fishing for Yellow Cat in the Brazos", in Field and Stream, vol. 21, 478.

     Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.

Etymology 9

Abbreviation of caterpillar.

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
2. A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

References

Anagrams

• A. C. T., A.C.T., ACT, ATC, Act., CTA, TAC, TCA, act, act., tac

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cat, from Min Nan ? (chhat), from Middle Chinese ? (tsit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??at?]
• Hyphenation: cat

Noun

cat (first-person possessive catku, second-person possessive catmu, third-person possessive catnya)

1. paint (substance)

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “cat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Alternative forms

• cut (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old Irish catt, from Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /k?t??/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kat??/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /k?t??/ (as if spelled cut)

Noun

cat m (genitive singular cait, nominative plural cait)

1. cat (domestic feline; member of the Felidae)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "cat" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “cat” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 121.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “catt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “cat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Malay

Etymology

From Min Nan ? (chhat), from Middle Chinese ? (tsit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??at/
• Rhymes: -t??at, -at

Noun

cat (Jawi spelling ???, informal 1st possessive catku, impolite 2nd possessive catmu, 3rd possessive catnya)

1. paint (substance)

Affixed terms

• bercat
• mengecat (active): to paint
  • dicat (passive): to be painted
• catan: 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)

Further reading

• “cat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• catte

Etymology

From Old English catt, catte; this is in turn from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. cat (feline)

Synonyms

• badde

Descendants

• English: cat
• Scots: cat
• Yola: kaudès (plural)

References

• “cat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Old Northern French cat (variant of Old French chat) from Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka/

Noun

cat m (plural cats, feminine catte)

1. cat
   • c. 1830, George Métivier, ‘Lamentations de Damaris’:

     Où'est donc qu'j'iron, mé et mes puches / Ma catte, et l'reste de l'écu?

   • 2006, Peggy Collenette, ‘D'la gâche de Guernési’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, page 20:

     Ils d'visirent pour enne haeure, mais la Louise était pas chagrinaïe au tour sa pâte, pasqué a savait que le cat était à gardaïr la pâte caoude. (They talked for an hour, but Louise was not worried about her dough, because she knew that the cat was keeping the dough warm.)

2. (Jersey) common dab (Limanda limanda)

Derived terms

• catchiéthe (“cat-flap”)

Old French

Noun

cat m (oblique plural caz or catz, nominative singular caz or catz, nominative plural cat)

1. (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of chat

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (kat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

cat n (plural caturi)

1. (dated) floor (storey)
   • 1892, Barbu ?tef?nescu Delavrancea, Mr. Vucea:

     Mi-aduc bine aminte c? unul s?rea de la al cincilea cat, ?i c-o mân? î?i ?inea p?l?ria. Grozav îi era de p?l?rie!

     I remember well that one was jumping from the fifth floor, and was holding his hat with one hand. That proud was he of the hat!

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish catt, borrowed from Late Latin cattus. Cognates include Irish cat and Manx kayt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?t?/

Noun

cat m (genitive singular cait, plural cait)

1. cat (Felis catus)

Declension

Derived terms

• clòimh-chat

Mutation

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• mare

Etymology

Probably from Latin m?s, marem (“male”), with a shift in meaning; alternatively from an irregular shortened form of maior, mai?rem (“bigger”). Compare Romanian mare, and see there for a more detailed etymology.

Adjective

mari (plural mãri or mar)

1. big, large, great

Antonyms

• njic

Derived terms

• mãrescu

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *marja.

Noun

mari (genitive marja, partitive marja)

1. berry
2. (uncountable) roe (eggs of fish)

Declension

Derived terms

• kalamari

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ri/, [?m?ri]
• Rhymes: -?ri
• Syllabification: ma?ri

Etymology 1

< Eastern Mari ???? (mari, “Mari person”)

Noun

mari

1. Mari (person)
2. Mari (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• (language): marin kieli

Hyponyms

• niittymari
• vuorimari

Etymology 2

< marihuana

Noun

mari

1. (slang) marijuana

Declension

Anagrams

• Armi, Irma, Mira, Rami, armi, rami, rima

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?i/

Etymology 1

From Old French mari, from Latin mar?tus.

Noun

mari m (plural maris)

1. husband

Derived terms

• mari complaisant

Related terms

• marier
• marié

See also

• époux
• femme
• épouse

Etymology 2

Clipping of marijuana.

Noun

mari f (plural maris)

1. cannabis, marijuana

Anagrams

• mira
• rami
• rima

Further reading

• “mari” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin m?ter, m?trem.

Noun

mari f (plural maris)

1. mother

See also

• pari

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?i/

Noun

mari

1. aboriginal person

References

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

Garifuna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mari/

Noun

mari (plural marinu)

1. spouse (husband or wife)

Inflection

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?ri]
• Hyphenation: ma?ri
• Rhymes: -ri

Adjective

mari (not comparable)

1. Mari (of or relating to Mari El, its people or language)

   Synonym: (dated) cseremisz

Declension

Noun

mari (countable and uncountable, plural marik)

1. Mari (person)
2. Mari (language)

   Synonym: (dated) cseremisz

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• mari in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay mari, from Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma?i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ri/
• Hyphenation: ma?ri

Verb

mari

1. to come here

Interjection

mari

1. come on!

Synonyms

• ayo (casual)

Further reading

• “mari” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

mari m

1. plural of mare

Anagrams

• armi
• mira
• rami
• rima

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflected form of the noun mare (“sea”).

Noun

mar? n

1. dative singular of mare
2. ablative singular of mare

Etymology 2

Inflected form of the noun m?s (“man”).

Noun

mar? m

1. dative singular of m?s

Etymology 3

Inflected form of the adjective m?s (“manly, masculine”).

Adjective

mar?

1. dative masculine singular of m?s
2. dative feminine singular of m?s
3. dative neuter singular of m?s
4. ablative masculine singular of m?s
5. ablative feminine singular of m?s
6. ablative neuter singular of m?s

Lindu

Noun

mari

1. place for unhusked paddy
2. (anatomy) spleen

Malay

Alternative forms

• ?????

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma?i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mari/
• Rhymes: -ari, -ri, -i

Verb

mari

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

Synonyms

• datang / ?????

Interjection

mari

1. come on

Mapudungun

Numeral

mari (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. ten

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Martuthunira

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?i/

Noun

mari

1. younger sister

Synonyms

• karturra (avoidance speech)

See also

• thurtu

References

• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *m?r?.

Adjective

m?ri

1. famous

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: mâre

Further reading

• “m?ri (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin mar?tus.

Noun

mari m (oblique plural maris, nominative singular maris, nominative plural mari)

1. husband

Descendants

• French: mari

Etymology 2

see marrir

Verb

mari m

1. past participle of marir

Adjective

mari m (oblique and nominative feminine singular marie)

1. Alternative form of marri

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma??i]

Adjective

mari

1. angry

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mar?]

Adjective

mari

1. nominative masculine plural of mare
2. accusative masculine plural of mare
3. nominative feminine plural of mare
4. accusative feminine plural of mare
5. nominative neuter plural of mare
6. accusative neuter plural of mare

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• mare

Etymology

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

Noun

mari

1. (Campidanese) sea

Shona

Etymology

From Swahili mali, from Arabic ????? (m?l).

Noun

marí 9 (plural marí 10)

1. money

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.??/
• Hyphenation: mà?ri

Noun

mari m (plural mari)

1. sea

Somali

Verb

mari

1. to apply

   rooti-ga wax mari. - Apply something on the bread

Spanish

Etymology

From Eastern Mari ???? (mari)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?i/, [?ma.?i]

Adjective

mari (plural maris)

1. Mari

Noun

mari m or f (plural maris)

1. Mari

Venetian

Noun

mari

1. plural of mar