köken: Borrowed from Russian тарака́н (tarakán), possibly a Turkic borrowing itself. Inheritance from an ancestor Turkic language would rather have yielded Azerbaijani *taraqan/*daraqan (or *tarağan/*darağan).
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 바회〮 (Yale: pàhwóy). The Middle Korean word also meant "rock" (> modern 바위 (bawi)), although this may be coincidental.
köken: From तेल (tel, “oil”) + चाटना (cāṭnā, “to lick, eat up”) + -आ (-ā), named so for its attraction to foodstuffs such as oil. Influenced by Sanskrit तैलपायिका (tailapāyikā). Cognate with Bengali তেলাপোকা (telapōka)
First attested as kackerlack towards the end of the 16th century as a derogatory term for a chatterbox or sycophant, deriving from kakker, a contemptuous term derived from kakken (“to shit, defecate”), and lakker (“talker, freeloader”), from likken (“to lick”). This word was subsequently conflated (from the mid-17th century onwards) with an unrelated early Portuguese form cacalacca designating…