What does meerkat mean in Afrikaans?
Meerkat is an Afrikaans word, roughly translated it means Marsh Cat. This meaning is quite strange because a Meerkat is not a cat and does not live near marshes. Instead its is a kind of mongoose. Suricate (Meerkats) are diurnal.
Is Meerkat a Dutch word?
From Afrikaans meerkat, transferred use of Dutch meerkat (“guenon [monkey]”), from Middle Dutch meercatte (literally “sea cat”), compare English mercat. Sometimes suggested to be influenced by or derived from an Indian source; compare Hindi मर्कट (markaṭ, “ape, monkey”) and Sanskrit मर्कट (markaṭa).
What is the English name for meerkat?
A meerkat (Suricata suricatta) is a small mammal that lives in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Despite its common name, it is more closely related to the mongoose family than to cats….
| Meerkat | |
|---|---|
| Species: | S. suricatta |
| Binomial name | |
| Suricata suricatta (Schreber, 1776) | |
| Meerkat range |
What means meerkat?
: any of several African mongooses especially : a burrowing highly social primarily insectivorous mammal (Suricata suricatta) of southern Africa that is chiefly grayish with faint black markings and lives in usually large colonies.
What is Meerkating?
Meerkating – slang When one pops up over the edge of their cubical to be nosey as to what’s going on around them. There goes Shiela from the Customer Service meerkating again. B**** just has to know what’s going on all the time…
What does meerkat mean in South African language?
Meerkats are one of the cutest animals you will ever see. But what does Meerkat mean in South African language? Meerkat is an Afrikaans word. Afrikaans is a language spoken by the Dutch people of South African. Meerkat roughly translate to Marsh Cat.
Which is more like a dog or a meerkat?
In this sense the word ‘meer’ means ‘more’, thus literally ‘meerkat’ would translate to ‘more-cat’. The expression, such as, “the animal looks more like a cat than a dog” (resembles a cat more) is commonly used in the region to express doubt or to compare things.
What do you call a yellow mongoose in Afrikaans?
In Afrikaans the meerkat is called graatjiemeerkat or stokstertmeerkat; the term mierkatte or meerkatte can refer to both the meerkat and the yellow mongoose ( Afrikaans: rooimeerkat ). In colloquial Afrikaans mier means ‘ant’ and kat means ‘cat’, hence the name probably refers to the meerkat’s association with termite mounds.
Where do you find meerkats in the world?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.19.139 ( talk) 11:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC) The article states that Meerkat are called “sun angels” in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The presence of meerkat in these countries is not reflected on the distribution map.