a cat - قط transliteration

[majlo]

Hello,
Is it a good transliteration of the word "cat"?
taqaf
If not, how do you transliterate the words to Latin characters?

 

[ayed]

It is "QiTTon"(masculine) or QiTTaton (femininie).Notice that the letter"T"is mushaddad"doubled"

 

[elroy]

Where did you come up with "taqaf?"

That means "you (m.) stop" or "she stops."

Ayed, just one nit-picky remark:

I would transliterate it as "qiTT(at)un," which I think is more officially correct - even though in casual speech/reading I would personally probably say "qiTT(at)on."

 

[CarlosPerezMartinez]

Where did you come up with "taqaf?"

That means "you (m.) stop" or "she stops."

Ayed, just one nit-picky remark:

I would transliterate it as "qiTT(at)un," which I think is more officially correct - even though in casual speech/reading I would personally probably say "qiTT(at)on."

It is Ta-Qaf if you read it from left to right

 

[elroy]

It is Ta-Qaf if you read it from left to right

How so? There's no "f."

 

[CarlosPerezMartinez]

How so? There's no "f."

قط Read from left to right: letter Ta' and letter Qaf. Spell it: ta-qaf, i.e., taqaf. It seems he was spelling it from left to right (but this is just a guess).

 

[la rosa roja]

they are just pronouncing it... ta (ط) qaf (ق) i think they mean it the other way round... qaf then ta to make قط.

 

[elroy]

Ah, I see now! Yes, that's probably what happened.

 

[Outsider]

It is "QiTTon"(masculine) or QiTTaton (femininie).

I'm curious about the etymology of these words. Can anyone tell me what it is?

 

[cherine]

I'm curious about the etymology of these words. Can anyone tell me what it is?

Do you have in mind the English word "cat" ? Well, I don't know the etymology of the word qit (qitta is only the feminine form, so it's not really another word). We spoke a bit about cats names in Arabic in a previous thread, maybe you'd like to give it a look.

By th way, there's another Arabic word for cat : hirr هِـرّ and the feminine is hirra هِـرَّة .

 

[Outsider]

Do you have in mind the English word "cat" ?

"Kitten", more precisely.
Although it's a long shot, since it seems everyone around the Mediterranean ended up with a similar word for "cat". Thank you for the link.