Fireball, an orange tabby cat, loves to terrorize all the cats in the neighborhood.
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Tabby
//ˈtæb.i//
Synonyms for "tabby" (90 found)
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Related words (45)
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3 entriesetymologically related_to
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3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- عَتَّابِي adj (brindled)
- عَتَّابِي noun (cat)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 斑貓 /斑猫 noun (cat)
- 虎斑貓 /虎斑猫 noun (cat)
Czech
3 entries- mourovatý adj (brindled)
- mourek noun (cat)
- mourovatá kočka noun (cat)
Dutch
3 entries- cyper noun (cat)
- cyperse kat noun (cat)
- getijgerde kat noun (cat)
French
4 entries- moiré adj (brindled)
- ondé adj (brindled)
- tigré adj (brindled)
- chat tigré noun (cat)
German
1 entries- Tabby noun (cat)
Hungarian
1 entries- cirmos noun (cat)
Indonesian
4 entries- berjalur adj (brindled)
- lorek adj (brindled)
- kucing mujair noun (cat)
- kucing tabi noun (cat)
Irish
2 entries- riabhach adj (brindled)
- cat riabhach noun (cat)
Italian
3 entries- soriano adj (brindled)
- gatto soriano noun (cat)
- soriano noun (cat)
Japanese
3 entries- トラネコ noun (cat)
- トラ猫 noun (cat)
- 虎猫 noun (cat)
Occitan
2 entries- tigrat adj (brindled)
- cat tigrat noun (cat)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تكیر adj (brindled)
Polish
1 entries- pręgowany kot noun (cat)
Portuguese
2 entries- tigrado adj (brindled)
- gato tigrado noun (cat)
Russian
2 entries- полоса́тая ко́шка noun (cat)
- полоса́тый кот noun (cat)
Spanish
4 entries- atigrado adj (brindled)
- barcino adj (brindled)
- gato atigrado noun (cat)
- gato romano noun (cat)
Thai
1 entries- แมวลายสลิด noun (cat)
Turkish
2 entries- tekir adj (brindled)
- tekir noun (cat)
Welsh
4 entries- brych adj (brindled)
- trilliw adj (brindled)
- cath drilliw noun (cat)
- cath frech noun (cat)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom's cat is a tabby.
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She adopted an old grey tabby cat from a local shelter.
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The tabby is lying on my foot.
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