Hello, Is it a good transliteration of the word "cat"? taqaf If not, how do you transliterate the words to Latin characters?
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."
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).
they are just pronouncing it... ta (ط) qaf (ق) i think they mean it the other way round... qaf then ta to make قط.
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 .
"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.
