قطو

Gulf Arabic

Alternative forms
  • گطو (gaṭu)

Etymology

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
  • (Kuwait) IPA(key): /ɡəˈtˤʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ʊ

Noun

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

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

References
  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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