This month’s cat vocabulary is the word claw. An important item to any cat. They spend lots of time grooming and sharpening them for use. We hope as pampered house cats they won’t need them as much as they would if they were fending for themselves outside.
Having claws ensures they will stop when they jump up to a high place. And if we tell them their claws are too sharp and hurt us, they learn to keep them retracted when they play with us.
Saying Claw in European Languages (source)
Language Ways to say claw
Albanian : thua
Basque: atzapar
Belarusian: кіпцюр
Bosnian: kandža
Bulgarian: нокът
Catalan: urpa
Croatian: kandža
Czech: dráp
Danish: klo
Dutch: klauw
Estonian: küünis
Finnish: kynsiä
French: griffe
Galician: garra
German: Klaue
Greek: δαγκάνα(dankána)
Hungarian: karom
Icelandic: Kló
Irish : claw
Italian: artiglio
Latvian: ķetna
Lithuanian: letena
Macedonian: ноктот
Maltese: irkupri
Norwegian: klo
Polish: pazur
Portuguese: garra
Romanian: Gheară
Russian: коготь(kogot’)
Serbian: канџа(kandzha)
Slovak: pazúr
Slovenian: krempelj
Spanish: garra
Swedish: klo
Ukrainian: кіготь(kihot’)
Welsh: grafanc
Yiddish: קרעל
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