marramáu

The characteristic cry of a cat, especially when in heat.; A cat; (domestic cat).

Onomatopoeic First attested as an interjection imitating the cry of a cat, especially when in heat, in 1514, in Auto o farsa del Nascimiento de Nuestro Señor by L. Fernández. As the “characteristic sound of a cat, especially when in heat”, it appears in La historia de Tobías (before 1635) by Lope de Vega, and is first recorded in the Diccionario de la lengua española (1917) by Alemany Bolufer. As a noun meaning “a carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, particularly the domestic cat”, it is do

Used to imitate the cry of a cat, especially when in heat.

Onomatopoeic First attested as an interjection imitating the cry of a cat, especially when in heat, in 1514, in Auto o farsa del Nascimiento de Nuestro Señor by L. Fernández. As the “characteristic sound of a cat, especially when in heat”, it appears in La historia de Tobías (before 1635) by Lope de Vega, and is first recorded in the Diccionario de la lengua española (1917) by Alemany Bolufer. As a noun meaning “a carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, particularly the domestic cat”, it is do