crab

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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kɹæb/
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• British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard: /ˈkɹab/
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• Scotland, Wales: /ˈkɾab/
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• Northern-Ireland: /ˈkɻab/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈkɹɛb/
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From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobheh2yéti (“to scratch”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbh- (“to carve, scratch”). More at carve. Cognates See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba. Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc. Other origins have also been suggested, see Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos) (regarding the possibility of a substrate origin) and Persian خرچنگ (regarding possible ideophonic origin); compare also Old Armenian քարբ (kʻarb), German Krebs.

From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect skrabba (“sour apple, apple cart”).

Possibly a corruption of the genus name Carapa

From carabiner.

289 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: адыҕаҷиа (adəğačʼja) — crustacean
• Afrikaans: krap — crustacean
• Ahom: 𑜆𑜥 (pū) — crustacean
• Ainu: アㇺパイ (ampay) — crustacean
• Ainu: アㇺパヤヤ (ampayaya) — crustacean
• Akan: ɔkɔtɔ — crustacean
• Aklanon: ueang — crustacean
• Albanian: gaforre — crustacean
• Amharic: ክራብ (kərab) — crustacean
• Arabic: سَرَطَان (saraṭān) — crustacean
• Arabic: سَلْطَعون (salṭaʕūn) — crustacean
• Arabic: كابوريا (kabúrya) — crustacean
• Arabic: ابو جلمبو (abu galambu) — crustacean
• Arabic: قبقب (gubgub, gabgab) — crustacean
• Arabic: قبقوب (gabgūb) — crustacean
• Arabic: سَلْطَعون (salṭaʕōn) — crustacean
• Arabic: سَرَطان (saraṭān) — crustacean
• Iraqi Arabic: جِنّيْب (jinnı̄b) — crustacean
• Arabic: بوجنيبة (būjnība) — crustacean
• Arabic: عقريش (ʕaqrīš) — crustacean
• Arabic: سَلْطَعون (salṭaʕōn) — crustacean
• Arabic: سَلْطَعون (salṭaʕōn) — crustacean
• Aragonese: candreixo — crustacean
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܲܪܛܵܢܵܐ (sārṭana) — crustacean
• Aramaic: ܣܪܛܢܐ (sarṭānā) — crustacean
• Armenian: ծովախեցգետին (covaxecʻgetin) — crustacean
• Assamese: কেঁকোৰা (kẽküra) — crustacean
• Asturian: cangrexu — crustacean
• Asturian: camarón — crustacean
• Asturian: cámbaru — crustacean
• Azerbaijani: yengəc — crustacean
• Baba Malay: kepiting — crustacean
• West Coast Bajau: kabou — crustacean
• Balinese: yuyu — crustacean
• Basque: karramarro — crustacean
• Bassa: ká — crustacean
• Belarusian: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Bengali: কাঁকড়া (kãkoṛa) — crustacean
• Bhojpuri: केकड़ा (kēkəṛā) — crustacean
• Bau Bidayuh: kuyoh — crustacean
• Bukar-Sadung Bidayuh: ketap — crustacean
• Bouyei: baul — crustacean
• Bulgarian: мо́рски рак (mórski rak) — crustacean
• Bulgarian: рак (rak) — crustacean
• Bulgarian: крив рак (kriv rak) — crustacean
• Bulgarian: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Burmese: ကဏန်း (ka.nan:) — crustacean
• Canela: paj — crustacean
• Catalan: cranc — crustacean
• Catalan: carranc — crustacean
• Cebuano: kasag — crustacean
• Chamicuro: majchelo — crustacean
• Chamorro: pånglao — crustacean
• Chechen: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Chichewa: nkhanu — crustacean
• Chinese Cantonese: 蟹 (haai5) — crustacean
• Chinese Cantonese: 螃蟹 (pong4 haai5) — crustacean
• Eastern Min Chinese: 蠞 (chiĕk) — crustacean
• Hakka Chinese: 老蟹 (lo-hái / no-hái) — crustacean
• Chinese: 蟳仔 /𫊻仔 (chîm-á) — crustacean
• Chinese: 蟳 /𫊻 (zh-min-nan) — crustacean
• Chinese Mandarin: 螃蟹 (pángxiè) — crustacean
• Chinese Mandarin: 蟹 (xiè) — crustacean
• Wu Chinese: 蟹 — crustacean
• Chukchi: каӈколгын (kaṇkolgyn) — crustacean
• Ngazidja Comorian: djandze — crustacean
• Coptic: ⲥⲁⲣⲇⲱⲟⲛ (sardōon) — crustacean
• Cornish: kanker — crustacean
• Crimean Tatar: pavra — crustacean
• Crimean Tatar: yengeç — crustacean
• Czech: krab — crustacean
• Danish: krabbe — crustacean
• Dhivehi: ކަކުނި (kakuni) — crustacean
• Dutch: krab — crustacean
• Dzongkha: སྦལཔ་ཀང་ཀུར (sbalp kang kur) — crustacean
• Ega: ɔxá — crustacean
• Emilian: gafa — crustacean
• Esperanto: krabo — crustacean
• Estonian: krabi — crustacean
• Faroese: krabbi — crustacean
• Finnish: taskurapu — crustacean
• Finnish: rapu — crustacean
• French: crabe — crustacean
• French: tourteau — crustacean
• West-Frisian: krab — crustacean
• Friulian: granç — crustacean
• Friulian: masanete — crustacean
• Gagauz: engeç — crustacean
• Galician: cangrexo — crustacean
• Galician: caranguexo — crustacean
• Galician: craba — crustacean
• Galician: rebasca — crustacean
• Galician: chabro — crustacean
• Georgian: კრაბი (ḳrabi) — crustacean
• Georgian: კიბორჩხალა (ḳiborčxala) — crustacean
• German: Krabbe — crustacean
• Greek: καβούρι (kavoúri) — crustacean
• Greek: καρκίνος (karkínos) — crustacean
• Ancient Greek: καρκίνος (karkínos) — crustacean
• Greenlandic: assagiarsuk — crustacean
• Greenlandic: saattuaq — crustacean
• Gujarati: કરચલો (karaclo) — crustacean
• Gurani: قرژانگی (qiržāngī) — crustacean
• Hawaiian: pāpaʻi — crustacean
• Hebrew: סַרְטַן (sartán) — crustacean
• Hindi: केकड़ा (kekṛā) — crustacean
• Hindi: केंकड़ा (kẽkṛā) — crustacean
• Hindi: सरतान (sartān) — crustacean
• Hindi: कर्कट (karkaṭ) — crustacean
• Hungarian: rák — crustacean
• Ibanag: agama — crustacean
• Icelandic: krabbi — crustacean
• Ido: krabo — crustacean
• Indonesian: ketam — crustacean
• Indonesian: kepiting — crustacean
• Ingrian: kraba — crustacean
• Irish: portán — crustacean
• Isnag: axama — crustacean
• Italian: granchio — crustacean
• Japanese: カニ (kani) — crustacean
• Japanese: 蟹 (kani) — crustacean
• Javanese: ꦪꦸꦪꦸ (yuyu) — crustacean
• Jeju: 깅이 (ging'i) — crustacean
• Kanakanabu: 'apasʉ — crustacean
• Kannada: ಏಡಿ (ēḍi) — crustacean
• Kapampangan: ema — crustacean
• S'gaw Karen: ဆွဲၣ် (hsweh̀) — crustacean
• Kazakh: таңқышаян (tañqyşaän) — crustacean
• Khmer: ក្ដាម (kdaam) — crustacean
• Kikai: 蟹 (ganī) — crustacean
• Kimaragang: tongkuyu — crustacean
• Kongo: nkala — crustacean
• Korean: 게 (ge) — crustacean
• Central Kurdish: قِرژاڵ (qirjall) — crustacean
• Northern Kurdish: kevjal — crustacean
• Southern Kurdish: قِرژِنگ (qirjing) — crustacean
• Kyrgyz: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Lao: ປູ (pū) — crustacean
• Latin: cancer — crustacean
• Latin: cancer marinus — crustacean
• Latvian: krabis — crustacean
• Ligurian: grìtta — crustacean
• Linngithigh: mbiwgh — crustacean
• Lithuanian: krabas — crustacean
• Lombard: gamber — crustacean
• Lü: ᦔᦴ (ṗuu) — crustacean
• Macedonian: рак (rak) — crustacean
• Maguindanao: ugagan — crustacean
• Malagasy: foza — crustacean
• Malagasy: fozakinga — crustacean
• Malay: ketam — crustacean
• Malay: kepiting — crustacean
• Malay: yuyu — crustacean
• Brunei Malay: katam — crustacean
• Malayalam: ഞണ്ട് (ñaṇṭŭ) — crustacean
• Maltese: granċ — crustacean
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡳ (katuri) — crustacean
• Manx: partan — crustacean
• Māori: pāpaka — crustacean
• Māori: waerau — crustacean
• Maranao: ogagang — crustacean
• Marathi: खेकडा (khekḍā) — crustacean
• Mauritian Creole: krab — crustacean
• Central Melanau: ketem — crustacean
• Central Melanau: buyou — crustacean
• Miyako: 蟹 (kan) — crustacean
• Mon: ဂတာံ (hətam) — crustacean
• Mon: ဗတာံ — crustacean
• Mongolian: наймалж (najmalž) — crustacean
• Mongolian: хавч (xavč) — crustacean
• Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠢᠮᠠᠯᠵᠢ (naimalǰi) — crustacean
• Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠪᠴᠢ (qabči) — crustacean
• Mulam: ˀjai5 — crustacean
• Tagal Murut: pua' — crustacean
• Khiamniungan Naga: hūa — crustacean
• Central Huasteca Nahuatl: xilij — crustacean
• Central Nahuatl: tecuicihtli — crustacean
• Nanticoke: tah!quah — crustacean
• Navajo: chʼosh bikágí ntłʼizí — crustacean
• Nepali: गँगटा (gãgaṭā) — crustacean
• Norman: crabbe — crustacean
• Norwegian Bokmål: krabbe — crustacean
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krabbe — crustacean
• Occitan: cranc — crustacean
• Occitan: favolha — crustacean
• Ojibwe: ashaageshiinh — crustacean
• Okinawan: 蟹 (gani) — crustacean
• Okinoerabu: 蟹 (gani) — crustacean
• Old English: crabba — crustacean
• Orok: э̄мэ (ə̄mə) — crustacean
• Ossetian: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Palauan: rekung — crustacean
• Pali: kakkaṭaka — crustacean
• Pannonian Rusyn: краба (kraba) — crustacean
• Pannonian Rusyn: рак (rak) — crustacean
• Pashto: چنګاښ (čangāx̌) — crustacean
• Pashto: نېښي (nex̌í) — crustacean
• Iranian Persian: خَرْچَنْگ (xarčang) — crustacean
• Iranian Persian: کَرْزَنْگ (karzang) — crustacean
• Piedmontese: ganber — crustacean
• Plautdietsch: Kjräft — crustacean
• Polish: krab — crustacean
• Portuguese: caranguejo — crustacean
• Portuguese: siri — crustacean
• Rohingya: kiáñra — crustacean
• Romagnol: gâmbar — crustacean
• Romanian: crab — crustacean
• Romansh: giomber — crustacean
• Russian: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Northern Sami: reabbá — crustacean
• Sanskrit: कर्कट (karkaṭa) — crustacean
• Scots: partan — crustacean
• Scottish Gaelic: partan — crustacean
• Scottish Gaelic: crùbag — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: ра̏к — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: кра́ба — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: rȁk — crustacean
• Serbo-Croatian: krába — crustacean
• Shan: ပူ (pǔu) — crustacean
• Sicilian: granciu — crustacean
• Sinhalese: කකුළුවා (kakuḷuwā) — crustacean
• Slovak: krab — crustacean
• Slovene: rakovica — crustacean
• Somali: carsaanyo — crustacean
• Sotho: lekhala — crustacean
• Sotho: lekgala — crustacean
• Spanish: cangrejo — crustacean
• Spanish: jaiba — crustacean
• Sranan Tongo: krabu — crustacean
• Sundanese: kebo — crustacean
• Swahili: kaa — crustacean
• Swedish: krabba — crustacean
• Tagalog: alimango — crustacean
• Tagalog: katang — crustacean
• Tai Dam: ꪜꪴ — crustacean
• Tajik: харчанг (xarčang) — crustacean
• Tamil: நண்டு (naṇṭu) — crustacean
• Tatar: кысла (qısla) — crustacean
• Tausug: kagang — crustacean
• Telugu: పీత (pīta) — crustacean
• Ternate: horu (sea-crab) — crustacean
• Ternate: disawa (hermit crab) — crustacean
• Thai: ปู (bpuu) — crustacean
• Tibetan: སྡིག་སྲིན (sdig srin) — crustacean
• Tidore: horu (sea-crab) — crustacean
• Tswana: lekakauwe — crustacean
• Turkish: yengeç — crustacean
• Ottoman Turkish: ینكج (yengec) — crustacean
• Turkmen: leňňeç — crustacean
• Tuvan: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Ukrainian: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Urdu: کیکْڑا (kekṛā) — crustacean
• Urdu: گیگْڑا (gegṛā) — crustacean
• Uyghur: قىسقۇچپاقا (qisquchpaqa) — crustacean
• Uzbek: krab — crustacean
• Uzbek: qisqichbaqa — crustacean
• Uzbek: dengiz qisqichbaqasi — crustacean
• Venetan: granso — crustacean
• Venetan: granzi — crustacean
• Vietnamese: cua — crustacean
• Vili: nkala — crustacean
• Welsh: cranc — crustacean
• Xhosa: unonkala — crustacean
• Yakut: краб (krab) — crustacean
• Yiddish: קראַב (krab) — crustacean
• Yoron: 蟹 (gan) — crustacean
• Yoruba: akàn — crustacean
• Yoruba: alákàn — crustacean
• Yurok: ko'ses — crustacean
• Zazaki: kerkinc — crustacean
• Zazaki: kerkınc (diq) — crustacean
• Zhuang: baeu — crustacean
• Zulu: inkala — crustacean
• Bulgarian: раздразни́телен чове́к (razdraznítelen čovék) — bad-tempered person
• Esperanto: grumblemulo — bad-tempered person
• Finnish: mörökölli — bad-tempered person
• Polish: opryskliwy — bad-tempered person
• Bulgarian: сра́мна въ́шка (srámna vǎ́ška) — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Catalan: cabra — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Czech: filcky — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Finnish: satiaisia — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• French: morpions — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Italian: piattola — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Italian: pidocchio del pube — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Russian: мандаво́шки (mandavóški) — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Spanish: ladilla — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Spanish: maneto — informal: infestation of pubic lice
• Bulgarian: недъг (nedǎg) — defect rendering an object inconvenient to use
• Bulgarian: кусур (kusur) — defect rendering an object inconvenient to use