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fishing cat

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A medium-sized cat whose habitat range extends through Indochina, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java; (Prionailurus viverrinus).

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46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: قِطّ صَيَّاد السَمَك (qiṭṭ ṣayyād as-samak) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Arabic: قِطّ سَمَاك (qiṭṭ samāk) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Assamese: মেচেকা (meseka) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Bengali: মেছোবাঘ (mechōbagh) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Bengali: টলা (ṭola) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Bulgarian: котка рибар (kotka ribar) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Burmese: ကြောင်တံငါ (kraungtamnga) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Catalan: gat pescador — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 漁貓 /渔猫 (yúmāo) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Czech: kočka rybářská — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Danish: fiskekat — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Dutch: vissende kat — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Dutch: viskat — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Esperanto: fiŝa kato — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Estonian: kalakass — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Finnish: kalastajakissa — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • French: chat viverrin — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • French: chat pêcheur — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • German: Fischkatze — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Hebrew: חתול דגים נמרי (khatúl dagim nemeri) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Icelandic: vatnaköttur — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Irish: cat iascaireachta — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Italian: gatto viverrino — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Italian: gatto pescatore — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Korean: 고기잡이삵 (gogijabisak) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Malay: kucing ikan — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Mon: ဗၜဵု — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Khiamniungan Naga: khìamkhàu — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Navajo: tábąąh mósí ałchiní — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fiskerkatt — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Polish: kotek cętkowany — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Polish: kot cętkowany — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Polish: taraj — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Portuguese: gato-pescador — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Russian: ко́шка-рыболо́в (kóška-rybolóv) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Serbo-Croatian: mačka ribič — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Serbo-Croatian: мачка риболовац (mačka ribolovac) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Slovak: mačka rybárska — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Slovene: ribiška tigrasta mačka — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Spanish: gato pescador — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Swedish: fiskarkatt — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Thai: เสือปลา (sʉ̌ʉabplaa) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Turkish: balıkçı kedi — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Ukrainian: віверіна (viverina) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Ukrainian: кіт-рибалка (kit-rybalka) — Prionailurus viverrinus
  • Vietnamese: mèo cá class con — Prionailurus viverrinus