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Gulf Arabic
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Latin cattus; 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
Noun
قطو • (gaṭu) m (plural قطاوة (gṭāwa), feminine قطوة (gaṭwa))
- a he-cat, a male cat.
- Synonym: عتوي (ʕitwi)
References
- ^ 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.