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).
cockroach (certain non-termite insect of the order Blattodea) · contemptible person · supporter of Feyenoord
çekim: çoğul kakkerlakken
eş: bakkerstor
köken: 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…
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)