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[oncogene.livejournal.com]

Here's an odd question for you: What are some popular [or unusual] names Russians give their pets? I'm adopting a kitten shortly, and I've been trying to come up with some names that don't suck. The list is unfortunately extremely short.

Edit: Sorry about that buggered ljcut. Thanks fucking__snow!



Iken
Omega
Omegakitty
Mogget
Unstable
Moto
Max
Glitch (What's the russian word for a computer glitch?)

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[fucking--snow.livejournal.com]

your cut is all messed up, yo

[hellga.livejournal.com]

I don't see any list in your post, but common names for a male cat would be

Murik (Мурик)
Murzik (Мурзик)
Vas'ka (Васька)
Tishka (Тишка)
Barsik (for a long-haired type) (Барсик)
Persik (for an orange Persian cat) (Персик)

For a female cat

Murka (Мурка)
Mashka (Машка)
Dashka (Дашка)

These are all the kitties I have encountered that I can remember... For some reason, most of my friends had male cats named Tishka :) My own cat was Murka.

Also, thanks to Alex Exler, the most famous cat of Russian internet is Bublik (Бублик). Bublik actually means a kind of bread, kind of like a bagel.

[rooskiyroulette.livejournal.com]

So cute! My next cat will have a Russian name :)

[temcat.livejournal.com]

A good female cat name is Фенька (Fen'ka). A male with red hair could be Рыжик (Ryzhik).

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

Sweet, you guys are replying with some great names. :)

[merengue.livejournal.com]

I had a cat named Alisa (it's Russian form for Alice). Now I have two, a male cat Murik (or Murchik as a variant) and female cat Shurka (or Shura).

[mithgol.livejournal.com]

the russian word for a computer glitch is „глюк“.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

I know a cat named "Штопка" - because she has bright patches of white, red and black fur all over her body and it reminded her owner of a patched blanket :).
("Штопка" - this is how special thick threads are called which are used for darning clothes)

[kacho.livejournal.com]

Well, my list: (the capital letters for the stressed vowels)

ЧернЫш (Chernysh) - for a black cat
КУзя (Kuzya)
СЕнька (СемЁн, СЕня) (Sen'ka, Semyon, Senya)
ДЁма (Dyoma)

Female cats can be:
БЕлка (Belka) (which actually means Squirrel) - for a white cat (my friends' cat is Belka, she is nice)
МУська (МУся) (Musya) - for any cat. A very common name for cats, who live in the street.
СОня - (Sonya) for the cat, who likes to sleep :), 'cause that means "sleepyhead". Except "sleepyhead", that is also a diminutive from the name Sofia.

My own cats were named:
НИкас (Neekas)
Сенька
ФАня (Fanya) (ФАнька, НафАня)
Макс (Maks)

And the bonus:
my pretty dog's name is ЛимOн (Limon) - Lemon! :)
Despite he is not yellow at all :)

[tolangue-agess.livejournal.com]

We had a male cat named Матроскин (Matroskin),
my female can now has a name Руша (Roosha) - I wanted it to sound similar to "Russia"

[a-garvey.livejournal.com]

dog's names:
Bobik Бобик
Druzhok Дружок
Muhtar Мухтар
Dgulbars Джульбарс
Sharik Шарик

cat's name - Bagira (from Kipling's Jungle's Book)

parrot's name:
Gosha
Kesha

[schwarzer-tod.livejournal.com]

Does the name Матроскин come from Трое из Простоквашино or is it older than that?

[tolangue-agess.livejournal.com]

it came from a cartoon - our cat had the same personality :)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Do you think that Roosha sounds anything similar to Россия? :))))))))))))))))))

[aciel.livejournal.com]

Had a Russian friend with a cat named Шерхан, or Шехан, or something similar. It was named after the tiger from The Jungle Book, but it was much more Russified.

Also, she called it by going ks, ks, ks.

[temcat.livejournal.com]

That's the standard Russian way of calling up to cats :-)

[tolangue-agess.livejournal.com]

I know, it doesn't
but when I was making this name up 10 years ago, I did use the word "Russia" as a base for a name
it doesn't make any sense now, but who cares?
not Roosha :)))

[oryx_and_crake]

Some British friends of mine had their cat called simply Koshka (Russian for "cat")

[hellga.livejournal.com]

A lot of time I would pet my cat, I would call her Kryska (Крыска), which literally means "little rat", it sounds similar to Kiska (Киска) ("little cat") but sounds better - Kryska-Muryska (Крыска-Мурыска) :)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely :))

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

Oooh, one of those cool cultural tidbits. ;)

[melange-fiesta.livejournal.com]

Glyouk! Heehee. I like that.

[melange-fiesta.livejournal.com]

Max is the name of my aunt's dog :D.

[melange-fiesta.livejournal.com]

That's how we would banish a cat here... by going "Ksst!"

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

It's now years later, but I ended up going with Сенька shortly after your post. :)

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