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Egyptian Mau

/ ʊ /

noun

  1. a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Egyptian Mau1

Arabic mau cat
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By the time I reached the 20th cat, the elusive Egyptian Mau, it took merging 262,144 kitty cats together.

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Renouf says: "It is not improbable that the cat, in Egyptian mäu, became the symbol of the Sun-god, or Day, because the word mäu also means light."

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