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The word "meerkat" is the same in English as it is in Afrikaans - it's pronounced meeer-kat in both languages. The literal translation is "lake cate", but is the name of the suricate a member of the mongoose family.
The meerkat a small (about 1.5 pounds) carnivorian mammal that live in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
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∙ 13y agoA meerkat refers to a small animal living in Africa. However, if you take the word 'meerkat', it consists of 2 Afrikaans words, namely 'meer', which refers to lake and 'kat', which refers to cat, so if you break the word down in means lake-cat.
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∙ 10y ago"Meerkat" in afrikaans is "Meerkat". The word 'meerkat' actually has its origins from Afrikaans. It is the same as "Wildebeest" and "Aardvark" (Directly translated means 'wild beast' and 'earth pig' respectivly) which also came from Afrikaans.
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What does the word meerkat mean?
The word "meerkat" is the same in English as it is in Afrikaans - it's pronounced meeer-kat in both languages. The literal translation is "lake cate", but is the name of the suricate a member of the mongoose family. The meerkat a small (about 1.5 pounds) carnivorian mammal that live in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
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The literal translation is "lake cat", but is the name of the suricate a member of the mongoose family. It's a small (about 1.5 pounds) carnivorous mammal that lives in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.AnswerIn Afrikaans meerkat generally translates to marsh cat.AnswerMeer has a few meanings in Afrikaans - it can mean 'more' or 'like'Kat is exactly what it sounds like - catSo a meerkat is a cat-like animalMeerkat - In the Afrikaans language (derived from African dialects and Dutch population in South Africa) from the Dutch word meercatte, meaning "sea cat" or "lake cat."The English equivalent is meercat. The meerkat or suricate Suricata suricatta is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family. It inhabits all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa."Marsh cat" would be a rough translation. The word is derived from the Dutch meercatte, which means "sea cat" or "lake cat".It is composed of two words namely 'meer' which means lake or dam and 'kat' which means cat. The word "meerkat" is the same in English as it is in Afrikaans - it's pronounced meeer-kat in both languages.The Dutch misidentified the suricate, a member of the mongoose family as a member of the Cercopithecus genus. Meerkat means "lake cat", but the animal lives primarily in arid semi-desert areas.
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It's family from the mongoose, if you type it in at Google images you can see what they look like.
