köken: Having taken its present shape in New Persian through a folk association with خر (xar, “large; donkey”) and چنگ (čang, “claw”), the word goes back to Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (klcng /karčang/) (𐫞𐫏𐫡𐫉𐫗𐫃 (qyrzng /karzang/)). The ultimate source is Old Iranian *karičanaka-, from Proto-Iranian *kar-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, scratch”). Related forms include Central…
a crab · the constellation Cancer · a tumor, cancer
çekim: çoğul cancrī · tamlayan cancrī
köken: From Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of carcer. Cognate with curvus. The medical sense, found in Celsus, seems likely to be a semantic loan from…
aile: cancellus
Etimoloji
From Middle High German krebȥ, krebeȥ, krebeȥe, from Old High German crebiȥ, krebiȥ, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit, from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”), see also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”), Dutch kreeft. The sense “cancer” is a semantic…