… is still a goat.
(With sincere apologies to the dear Bard.)
So, what do you call that four-legged, horned animal with rectangular pupils in your language or dialect? “Rectangular?!”, you might ask. Yeah! Here's a close-up picture if you don't believe me:
With horizontal slits, feeding in bright light, dim light, or at night is made possible with their pupil. Of course, it's not just the feeding that is made possible but seeing and avoiding predators too. Sheep also have rectangular pupils and so do horses.
Tthe horizontal pupil permits greater peripheral vision. These animals are preyed upon by a variety of carnivors and their vision is critical to their safety. If they can see danger more easily out of the “corner of their eye”, they're more likely to avoid capture.
Okay, sorry for rambling about that. This article is actually about goat names in our local languages (or, dialect, if you would insist.), and the rest of the world.
"Goat" in Philippine languages
- Aklanon: kanding
- Cebuano: kanding, kangding
- Chabacano: cabrito 1)
- Filipino: kambing
- Hiligaynon: kanding
- Ibanag: kazzing
- Isabtangen: kadin
- Ilokano: kalding
- Kapampangan: kambing
- Pangasinense: kanding
- Tagalog: kambing
- Waray: kanding
"Goat" in other languages of the World
Translations
- Albanian: dhi
- Amuzgo: kínch'ió
- Aragonese: craba
- Armenian: այծ (ayç)
- Basque: ahuntz
- Belarusian: каза
- Bosnian: koza, jarac
- Breton: gavr
- Bulgarian: коза, koza
- CJKV Characters: 羊
- Catalan: cabra
- Cherokee: (ugasotsanedv)
- Chinese: 羊 (yáng)
- Croatian: koza, kòza
- Czech: koza, kozel
- Danish: ged
- Dutch: geit, bok
- Esperanto: kapro
- Estonian: kits
- Ewe: gbɔ̃
- Faroese: geit
- Filipino: kambing
- Finnish: vuohi
- French: chèvre
- Friulian: cjavre
- Galician: cabra
- German: Ziege, Geiß
- Greek: (he-goat) τράγος (trágos); (she-goat) αίγα (éga), γίδα (yíða), κατσίκα (katsíka)
- Hebrew: עֵז (ez)
- Hungarian: kecske
- Icelandic: geit
- Indonesian: kambing
- Irish: gabhar
- Italian: capra
- Japanese: やぎ (yagi)
- Javanese: wedus
- Kirundi: impene
- Korean: 염소 (yeomso), 산양 (sanyang)
- Kurdish: KUchar(بزن)
- Ladin: cioura
- Lao: ແບ້ (bëë)
- Latin: caper, capra, hircus
- Latvian: kaza, āzis
- Lithuanian: ožka; ožys
- Lower|Sorbian: koza
- Macedonian: коза (koza)
- Malay: kambing
- Maltese: mogħża
- Norwegian: geit
- Occitan: cabra
- Old|Church Slavonic:
- : Cyrillic: коза
- : Glagolitic: ⰍⰑⰈⰀ|
- Polabian: ťözâ|
- Polish: koza, kozioł
- Portuguese: bode, cabra
- Romanian: capră
- Romansch: chaura
- Romany: buzno (buck), buzni (doee)
- Russian: коза (doe), козёл (buck)
- Sami: gáica
- Sardinian: craba, becca
- Scottish|Gaelic: gobhar
- Serbian:
- : Cyrillic: коза
- : Roman: koza
- Sicilian: beccu (buck), crapa (doe)
- Slovak: koza (doe), cap (buck)
- Slovene: koza (doe), kozel(buck)
- Spanish: cabra (doe), chivo(buck)
- Sumerian: 𒍚 (ÙZ)
- Swahili: mbuzi
- Swedish: get|c
- Telugu: మేక (mEka)
- Thai: แพะ (phae)
- Turkish: keçi
- Ukrainian: козел (buck), коза (doe), цап (buck)
- Upper|Sorbian: koza (doe)
- Vietnamese: dê, con|dê
- Welsh: gafr
- West|Frisian: geit