# The Three Letter F-Word

Fox. It seems that many people name their shibas "Foxy" or something fox-related. (Heard a neighbor calling her golden-ish red, rather portly shiba - "Come here, Mr Fox") I've also encountered more than one Kitsune (though Jen's is the cutest. :) ) A few posts I've read have asked for name help, so…

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## santuzza · 2009-02-01T02:43:03.000Z
Fox. It seems that many people name their shibas "Foxy" or something fox-related. (Heard a neighbor calling her golden-ish red, rather portly shiba - "Come here, Mr Fox") I've also encountered more than one Kitsune (though Jen's is the cutest. :) ) A few posts I've read have asked for name help, so I thought I post this to see if it inspires anyone. If you have another translation, add it. Let's see how many we end up with. Renard – French Zorro – Spanish Fuchs – German Volpe - Italian Raposa - Portuguese Soro – Filipino Vos - Dutch Tilki - Turkish Räv – Swedish Vulpes - Latin

## lindsayt · 2009-02-01T03:04:05.000Z
1/2 of the family still speaks German and mom suggested Fuchs when I got Beebe. I decided against it immediately because it sounds too much like the plural of fu*k. The other half of the fam-damily speaks Norwegian. I should have named Beebe their word.

Norwegian - Rev

## santuzza · 2009-02-01T04:18:50.000Z
The spelling is different, but in French, "reve" means a dream.

## Sangmort (moderator) · 2009-02-01T04:28:40.000Z
In arabic, fox is "Thaleb." الثعلب Tha - leb. Kind of hard to type it out phonetically haha :) ~

## Leonberger (admin) · 2009-02-01T07:06:59.000Z
In Portuguese, if it's a male, sometimes people call it raposo.

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