«اِلْمَرَه الْمِفَرَّطَهْ عَلِيهَا قُطَّه مْسَلَّطَهْ»

The saying pictures a woman who neglects or squanders, the active sense of mufarriṭa, as if a cat had been turned loose on her belongings, eating away until nothing remains. Her losses are blamed not on bad luck or outsiders but on her own carelessness.

In practice it reproaches a woman judged foolish or neglectful in running her home and resources. The cat is a figure of steady loss, not a literal pest: slackness invites constant, creeping waste, much as an unchecked cat in the pantry slowly empties it.

Said critically of a woman seen as heedless with her household and possessions, whose things keep disappearing through her own inattention. It works as a sharp rebuke and singles out women, so its gendered, demeaning judgment can read as sexist or insulting.