Cynthia: Hey, Marcy! Happy World Cat Day.
Marcy: Merci.
Cynthia: I bet you don’t know how to say cat in French.
Marcy rolls her eyes.
Marcy: Chat. Chaton. Minou.
Cynthia: How about in Bulgarian?
Marcy: Kotka.
Cynthia: Arabic?
Marcy: Kitte.
Cynthia: Vietnamese?
Marcy: Meo.
Cynthia: Eskimo?
Marcy: Pussi.
Cynthia: Egyptian?
Marcy: M’iw. Kut.
Cynthia: Japanese?
Marcy: Neko.
Cynthia: Oh and my favorite. Hawaiian?
Marcy: Popoki.
Cynthia: Popoki. I want to say it over and over. Popoki. I know! Let’s get another cat and name him Popoki!
Marcy: Yeah if you want me to popoki out your eyeball.
Marcy raises her Friskies can. Cynthia raises her martini glass.
Marcy and Cynthia: Cheers to the cats and cat lovers all over the world!
Happy World Cat Day!
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*More ways to say “cat” in other languages.
| Albanian | macë | |
| Arabic | kitte | |
| Armenian | katu | |
| Basque | catua | |
| Bulgarian | kotka | |
| Cantonese | Maow | |
| Catalan | gat | |
| Cherokee (Tsalagi) | eesa | |
| Chinese | miu or mau  |
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| Cree | bushi | |
| Czech | kocka | |
| Dutch | kat or poes | |
| Egyptian |  miw |
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| English | cat | |
| Eskimo | pussi | |
| Esperanto | kato | |
| Estonian | kass or kiisu | |
| Ethiopian | domadh | |
| Farsi | gorbe | |
| Filipino | cat or pusa | |
| Finnish | kissa | |
| French | chat | |
| Fula (New Guinea) | gnari | |
| Gaelic | pishyakan / Piscín, cait | |
| German | katti, katze or ket | |
| Greek |  gata, gati |
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| Gujarati (India) | biladi | |
| Gypsy | muca | |
| Hawaiian | popoki | |
| Hebrew | cha’tool | |
| Hindi | billi | |
| Hungarian | cica/macska | |
| Icelandic | kottur | |
| Indian | biladi gujarati | |
| Indonesian | kuching, kutjing | |
| Irish | cat | |
| Italian | gatto | |
| Japanese |  neko |
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| Kannada (Indian) | bekku | |
| Kmer | chma | |
| Korean |  |
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| Latin | cattus or felis | |
| Lithuanian | katinas | |
| Malayalam (Indian) | poocha | |
| Malay/Indonesian | kucing | |
| Maltese | qattus | |
| Mayan | miss, miz | |
| Netherlands | kat (male); poes (female) | |
| New Guinea | gnari fula | |
| Norwegian | katt | |
| Pakistani | shimii | |
| Plains Cree Indians | minoos | |
| Polish | kot or gatto | |
| Portuguese | gato | |
| Pusa | cat | |
| Romanian | pisica | |
| Romansch | giat | |
| Russian | koshka (female); kot (male) | |
| Sanskrit | marjara | |
| Serbo-Croatian | macka | |
| Slovak | mačka; muca | |
| Spanish | gato | |
| Swahili | paka | |
| Swedish | katt | |
| Swiss-German | büsi, chatz | |
| Tamil | poonai | |
| Tatalog (Philipino) | pusa | |
| Thai/Vietnamese | meo | |
| Turkish | kedi | |
| Ukrainian | kitska (female); kit (male) | |
| Vietnamese | mèo | |
| Welsh | cath | |
| Yiddish | kats | |
| Zulu | Ikati |
11 Comments
Popoki would be the most amazing name for a cat! I love it! Sorry Marcy, Cynthia has to do it. Although Friskies would be a good name too. Happy World Cat Day! I have enjoyed seeing all of the funny kitty pictures on Pinterest today.
Marcy, you look stunning in your closeup, by the way.
Jenni
Someday I will have a cat named Popoki. Someday…
xo,cynthia
thank you, jenni. if cindy gets another cat i'm moving in with you.
meow,marcy
I love Popoki for a cat name. I must say that Marcy looks very pretty in this picture and I love her eye color!
Happy World Cat Day,
Stacey
Isn't Popoki the cutest name ever?! Freddy took that picture of Marcy. She never poses for me. Hope you are having a fantastic weekend!
xo,cynthia
Marcy, that is a GREAT photo. You could be a supermodel. And I didn't know you were a polyglot. This is a side of you we've never seen.
thank you. i expect to be on the cover of vogue next month. also i am very intelligent and speak several more languages. some you have never even heard of.
meow,marcy
What a great picture of Marcy! She looks so chic! 🙂 Popoki is really cute…i also like the vietnmaese one…meo 🙂
Thank you, Merrie! I really love that word. It just rolls off the tongue. So cute. Meo is adorable too! Honestly, I can't take credit for the photo of Marcy. Freddy took it.
Oh! By the way, August 13th is Black Cat Appreciation Day. Let Minnie know she has her very own day!
xo,cynthia
Aaaack! Got the date wrong! Black Cat Appreciation Day is on the 17th. Where is my brain i'd like to know!
Happy belate World Cat Day! I see you got the Norwegian word for cat in there (which is the same in Swedish and Danish, so really that's three for one), well done, haha! Poopki is an amazing cat name, perhaps if you adopt two kittens at the same time you could also employ the Romanian name, Pisica…? I mean, just to drag it all completely into the gutter? 😉
Ha! I put the Norwegian one in just for you!
xo,cynthia
don't encourage her, gwen.
meow,marcy