قطو
Gulf Arabic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- گطو (gaṭu)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]قطو • (gaṭu) m (plural قطاوة (gṭāwa), feminine قطوة (gaṭwa))
References
[edit]- ^ 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, , →ISBN, page 117.
Categories:
- Gulf Arabic terms with unknown etymologies
- Gulf Arabic terms derived from Latin
- Gulf Arabic terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Gulf Arabic terms derived from Portuguese
- Gulf Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Gulf Arabic/ʊ
- Rhymes:Gulf Arabic/ʊ/2 syllables
- Gulf Arabic lemmas
- Gulf Arabic nouns
- Gulf Arabic masculine nouns