A black cat often symbolizes mystery, luck (good or bad), and magic across various cultures. Here’s how you say it around the world:
🗣️ 100 Translations of “Black Cat”
- Arabic – قطة سوداء (Qitta Sawda’)
- French – Chat noir
- Spanish – Gato negro
- German – Schwarze Katze
- Italian – Gatto nero
- Portuguese – Gato preto
- Russian – Чёрная кошка (Chyornaya koshka)
- Japanese – 黒猫 (Kuro neko)
- Chinese (Mandarin) – 黑猫 (Hēi māo)
- Korean – 검은 고양이 (Geom-eun goyang-i)
- Hindi – काली बिल्ली (Kaali Billi)
- Urdu – کالی بلی
- Greek – Μαύρη γάτα (Mávri gáta)
- Turkish – Siyah kedi
- Dutch – Zwarte kat
- Polish – Czarny kot
- Swedish – Svart katt
- Danish – Sort kat
- Norwegian – Svart katt
- Finnish – Musta kissa
- Czech – Černá kočka
- Slovak – Čierna mačka
- Hungarian – Fekete macska
- Romanian – Pisică neagră
- Thai – แมวดำ (Maew dam)
- Vietnamese – Mèo đen
- Indonesian – Kucing hitam
- Filipino – Itim na pusa
- Malay – Kucing hitam
- Bengali – কালো বিড়াল (Kalo biral)
- Swahili – Paka mweusi
- Zulu – Ikati elimnyama
- Xhosa – Ikati elimnyama
- Hebrew – חתול שחור (Khatul shakhór)
- Persian (Farsi) – گربه سیاه
- Tamil – கருப்பு பூனை (Karuppu poonai)
- Telugu – నలుపు పిల్లి (Nalupu pilli)
- Kannada – ಕಪ್ಪು ಬೆಕ್ಕು (Kappu bekku)
- Gujarati – કાળી બિલાડી (Kaali bilaadi)
- Marathi – काळी मांजर (Kaali maanzar)
- Punjabi – ਕਾਲੀ ਬਿੱਲੀ
- Ukrainian – Чорна кішка (Chorna kishka)
- Belarusian – Чорная кошка (Chornaya koshka)
- Serbian – Црна мачка (Crna mačka)
- Croatian – Crna mačka
- Bosnian – Crna mačka
- Slovenian – Črna mačka
- Estonian – Must kass
- Latvian – Melns kaķis
- Lithuanian – Juoda katė
- Icelandic – Svört köttur
- Irish – Cat dubh
- Scottish Gaelic – Cat dubh
- Welsh – Cath ddu
- Basque – Katua beltza
- Catalan – Gat negre
- Galician – Gato negro
- Haitian Creole – Chat nwa
- Malagasy – Saka mainty
- Maori – Ngeru pango
- Samoan – Pusi uliuli
- Tongan – Pusi ‘uli’uli
- Lao – ແມວດຳ (maeo dam)
- Burmese – အမဲရောင်ကြောင် (a-me-youn-kyoung)
- Khmer – ឆ្មាពណ៌ខ្មៅ (Chhmaa poar khmao)
- Mongolian – Хар муур (Khar muur)
- Uzbek – Qora mushuk
- Kazakh – Қара мысық (Qara mysıq)
- Azerbaijani – Qara pişik
- Georgian – შავი კატა (Shavi kata)
- Armenian – Սեւ կատու (Sev katu)
- Nepali – कालो बिरालो (Kalo biralo)
- Sinhala – කළු බළලා (Kalu balala)
- Pashto – تور پیشو (Tor pesho)
- Kurdish – Pisîka reş
- Yoruba – Ologbo dudu
- Igbo – Pusi ojii
- Hausa – Mage baki
- Afrikaans – Swart kat
- Somali – Bisad madow
- Amharic – ጥቁር ድመት (ṭ’ik’uri dīmiti)
- Tigrinya – ጸሊም ድመት (Tselim demit)
- Chewa – Mphaka wakuda
- Malagasy – Saka mainty
- Fijian – Pusi loaloa
- Tahitian – Pusi ‘e’epa
- Greenlandic – Qimmit qernertut
- Navajo – Mósí łizh yízhí
- Hawaiian – Pōpoki ʻeleʻele
- Cree – Pisisikwa (black) + Pîsimwa (cat)
- Cherokee – ᎩᎦᎨ ᎤᏍᏆᏂᎪᎢ (Gigage usquanigoi)
- Quechua – Yanqa misi
- Nahuatl – Tlilli miztli
- Aymara – Ch’iyara michi
- Mapudungun – Ñamku prufe
- Inuktitut – ᓂᐱᖅ ᐊᒪᖅ (nipi amaq)
- Esperanto – Nigra kato
- Interlingua – Nigre catto
- Toki Pona – kili pimeja soweli
- Klingon (for fun) – Qeb Qovpatlh (approximate)