Cat Naming Practices in Saudi Arabia
The current paper explores cat naming practices in Saudi Arabia (SA), an Islamic Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East. Based on a corpus of 586 cat names, the study reveals that female cat owners assign non-Arabic foreign names to their cats, while their male counterparts prefer traditional...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Names |
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| Online Access: | https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2334 |