köken: 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…
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…
lobster, crayfish, used of certain members of the Pleocyemata
çekim: çoğul kreeften
köken: From Middle Dutch crevet, creeft, from Old Dutch *krevit, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit, from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz. Akin to German Krebs and Swedish kräfta.
crawfish, crayfish · crab (any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace) · cancer (disease of uncontrolled cellular proliferation)