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: From a Norman dialect (compare Jèrriais crabe), partly from Old Norse krabbi and partly from Middle Dutch crabbe, both from Proto-Germanic *krabbô. Cognate with Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish”). More at crab.
aile: crabier, crochet à crabes, en crabe, marcher en crabe, panier de crabes, pince à crabes
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.
aile: kreeftachtig, rivierkreeft
Kreeft — Yengeç Burcu
PortekizceCâncer, quarto signo do zodíaco, caranguejo (eril) /ka.ɾɐ̃ˈɡe.ʒu/
crab
çekim: çoğul caranguejos
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kr̥kros Proto-Italic *karkros Proto-Italic *kankros Latin cancer Old Spanish cangro Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Spanish -ejo Spanish cangrejo Portuguese carango blend Portuguese caranguejo Blend of Spanish cangrejo +…
köken: From Old Swedish krabba, krabbe, from Old Norse krabbi, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰ- (“to crawl, scratch”). See also kräfta (“crayfish”).
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…