A wild bobcat . From bob ( short hair; with reference to its tail ) + cat
bobcat (plural bobcats
A North American wildcat , Lynx rufus tufted ears and a short tail .
Synonym: ( rare ) red lynx 2023 March 27, Helen Lewis, “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?”, in The Atlantic [1] In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: [ …] A father from East Orlando punched a bobcat in the face for attacking his daughter’s dog.
North American wild cat
Abenaki: bezo
Adyghe: чэтыушыумыш ( čɛtəwušəwuməš )
Apache:
Western Apache: gídí dziłkáʼyú gólííní
Arabic: وَشَق أَحْمَر ( wašaq ʔaḥmar )
Armenian: կարմիր լուսան ( karmir lusan )
Avar: багӏараб цӏиркъ ( baʻarab cʼirqxʼ )
Azerbaijani: kürən vaşaq
Basque: katamotz gorri
Belarusian: рудая рысь ( rudaja rysʹ )
Breton: liñs rous
Bulgarian: американски рис m ( amerikanski ris )
Cahuilla: túkut
Catalan: linx roig m
Central Sierra Miwok: tolom·maˀah
Cherokee: ᎬᎮ ( gvhe ) , ᎠᎺᎵᎨ ᎬᎮ ( amelige gvhe )
Cheyenne: mohkave
Chinese:
Mandarin: 短尾貓 ／ 短尾猫 ( duǎn wěimāo )
Czech: rys červený m
Danish: rødlos (da) c
Dutch: rode lynx (nl) m
Eastern Mari: йошкар шурмаҥше ( joškar šurmaŋše )
Esperanto: rufa linko
Estonian: punailves
Finnish: punailves amerikanilves
French: lynx roux (fr) m chat sauvage (fr) m lynx bai (fr) m
Gabrielino-Fernandeño: tukuut
German: Rotluchs (de) m
Greek: ερυθρός λύγκας m ( erythrós lýgkas )
Hebrew: שונר מצוי
Hindi: बॉबकैट ( bŏbkaiṭ )
Hungarian: vörös hiúz (hu)
Ido: bruna linco
Irish: bobchat m
Italian: lince rossa f
Japanese: ボブキャット (ja) ( bobukyatto )
Korean: 붉은스라소니 ( bulgeunseurasoni ) , 보브캣 ( bobeukaet )
Lak: ятӏулсса цӏиникь ( aˤtʼuls:a cʼiniqʼ )
Latvian: rūsganais lūsis
Lithuanian: rudoji lūšis
Lutshootseed: p̓əč̓əb
Malayalam: ബോബ്ക്യാറ്റ് ( bōbkyāṟṟŭ )
Nahuatl: ocotōchtli (nah)
Navajo: náshdóí łibáhígíí náshdóíłbáí
Northern Paiute: tuhuˀu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rødgaupe m or f
Nynorsk: raudgaupe
Persian: گربه دمکوتاه
Polish: ryś rudy (pl) m
Portuguese: lince-vermelho m
Quechua: ruka linsi
Romanian: râs roșu m linx roșu m
Russian: ры́жая рысь f ( rýžaja rysʹ ) , красная рысь f ( krasnaja rysʹ )
Slovak: rys červený m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: čerwjeny rys
Spanish: lince rojo m
Swedish: rödlo c
Tamil: பாப் பூனை ( pāp pūṉai )
Thai: บอบแคต (th) ( bòbkâet )
Turkish: doru vaşak
Udmurt: кельыт балян ( keľyt baľan ) , горд балян ( gord baľan )
Ukrainian: рись руда f ( rysʹ ruda ) , бобкет ( bobket )
Unami: chinkwe
Vietnamese: linh miêu đuôi cộc
Welsh: bobgath
West Frisian: reade lynks
Western Panjabi: باب بلا (pnb)
Genericization of the trademark Bobcat
bobcat (plural bobcats
A multi-purpose construction vehicle , akin to a smaller version of a front-end loader or a backhoe (backhoe loader ), with a one-man caged control cabin . 
