crab

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , from , a metathesised o-grade of. More at.

See also 🇨🇬, Low German, Danish , Swedish.

Further cognates with frequentative-infix are 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Possibly related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 etc.

Noun

 * 1)  A crustacean of the infraorder, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
 * 2)  The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
 * 3) A bad-tempered person.
 * 4)  An infestation of pubic lice.
 * 5)  The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
 * 6)  A playing card with the rank of three.
 * 7)  A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
 * 8) A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
 * 9)  An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
 * 1)  A playing card with the rank of three.
 * 2)  A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
 * 3) A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
 * 4)  An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
 * 1)  An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
 * 1)  An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: адыҕаҷиа
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ahom: 𑜆𑜥
 * Ainu: アㇺパイ, アㇺパヤヤ
 * Akan: ɔkɔtɔ
 * Aklanon: ueang
 * Albanian: gërthël
 * Amharic: ክራብ
 * Arabic: سَرَطَان, سَلْطَعون
 * Egyptian Arabic: كابوريا, ابو جلمبو
 * Gulf Arabic: قبقب
 * Hijazi Arabic: سَلْطَعون, سَرَطان
 * Iraqi Arabic: جِنّيْب
 * Moroccan Arabic: بوجنيبة, عقريش
 * North Levantine Arabic: سَلْطَعون
 * South Levantine Arabic: سَلْطَعون
 * Aragonese: candreixo
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܣܪܛܢܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: কেঁকোৰা
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܲܪܛܵܢܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Baba Malay: kepiting
 * Balinese: yuyu
 * Basque: karramarro
 * Bassa: ká
 * Bau Bidayuh: kuyoh
 * Belarusian: краб
 * Bengali:
 * Bouyei: baul
 * Brunei Malay: katam
 * Bukar-Sadung Bidayuh: ketap
 * Bulgarian: мо́рски рак,
 * Burmese:
 * Canela: paj
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: kasag
 * Central Huasteca Nahuatl: xilij
 * Central Melanau: ketem, buyou
 * Central Nahuatl: tecuicihtli
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: majchelo
 * Chamorro: pånglao
 * Chechen: краб
 * Chichewa: nkhanu
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 螃蟹
 * Eastern Min: 蠞
 * Hakka: 老蟹
 * Hokkien: 蟳仔,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 蟹
 * Chukchi: каӈколгын
 * Coptic: ⲥⲁⲣⲇⲱⲟⲛ
 * Cornish: kanker
 * Crimean Tatar: pavra
 * Czech:
 * Danish: krabbe
 * Dhivehi: ކަކުނި
 * Dutch:
 * Ega: ɔxá
 * Emilian:
 * Esperanto: krabo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: krabbi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: granç, masanete
 * Galician:, , craba, rebasca, chabro
 * Georgian: კრაბი, კიბორჩხალა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: καρκίνος
 * Greenlandic:, saattuaq
 * Gujarati: કરચલો
 * Gurani: قرژانگی
 * Hawaiian: pāpaʻi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, केंकड़ा, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ibanag: agama
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: krapu
 * Iranun:
 * Irish:
 * Isnag: axama
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:, ꦪꦸꦪꦸ
 * Kanakanabu: 'apasʉ
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: ema
 * Kazakh: таңқышаян
 * Khmer:
 * Kikai: 蟹
 * Kimaragang: tongkuyu
 * Kongo: nkala
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: قِرژِنگ
 * Kyrgyz: краб
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, cancer marinus
 * Latvian: krabis
 * Ligurian: grìtta
 * Lithuanian: krabas
 * Lombard:
 * Lü: ᦔᦴ
 * Macedonian: рак
 * Maguindanao: ugagan
 * Malagasy:, fozakinga
 * Malay:, kepiting,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: granċ
 * Manchu: ᡴᠠᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡳ
 * Manx: partan
 * Maori: pāpaka, waerau
 * Maranao: ogagang
 * Marathi: खेकडा
 * Minangkabau:
 * Miyako: 蟹
 * Mon: ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠢᠮᠠᠯᠵᠢ, ᠬᠠᠪᠴᠢ
 * Mulam: ˀjai⁵
 * Nanticoke: tah!quah
 * Navajo: chʼosh bikágí ntłʼizí
 * Nepali: गँगटा
 * Ngazidja Comorian: djandze
 * Norman: crabbe
 * Northern Sami: reabbá
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: krabbe
 * Occitan:, fovolha
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: ashaageshiinh
 * Okinawan: 蟹
 * Okinoerabu: 蟹
 * Old English: crabba
 * Orok: э̄мэ
 * Ossetian: краб
 * Ottoman Turkish: ینكج
 * Palauan: rekung
 * Pali: kakkaṭaka
 * Pashto: چنګاښ,
 * Persian:, کرزنگ
 * Piedmontese: ganber
 * Plautdietsch: Kjräft
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rohingya: kiáñra
 * Romagnol: gâmbar
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: giomber
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: ဆွဲၣ်
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: partan
 * Scottish Gaelic: partan, crùbag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рак, краба
 * Roman: ,
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian: granciu, garanciu, garanc' 'i mari, arancimaru
 * Sinhalese: කකුළුවා
 * Slovak: krab
 * Slovene: rakovica
 * Somali:
 * Sotho: lekhala, lekgala
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: krabu
 * Sundanese: kebo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagal Murut: pua'
 * Tagalog:, katang
 * Tai Dam: ꪜꪴ
 * Tajik: харчанг
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: kagang
 * Telugu:
 * Ternate: horu, disawa
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྡིག་སྲིན
 * Tidore: horu
 * Tswana: lekakauwe
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: leňňeç
 * Tuvan: краб
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کیکڑا, گیگڑا
 * Uyghur: قىسقۇچپاقا
 * Uzbek:, , dengiz qisqichbaqasi
 * Venetian:, granzi
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Coast Bajau: kabou
 * West Frisian: krab
 * Xhosa: unonkala
 * Yakan:
 * Yakut: краб
 * Yiddish: קראַב
 * Yoron: 蟹
 * Zazaki: kerkinc,
 * Zhuang: baeu
 * Zulu:


 * Bulgarian: раздразни́телен чове́к
 * Esperanto: grumblemulo
 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Bulgarian: срамна въшка
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: satiaisia
 * French:
 * Italian:, pidocchio del pube
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, maneto

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for crabs.
 * 2)  To ruin.
 * 3)  To complain.
 * 4)  To complain about.
 * 5)  To drift or move sideways or to leeward.
 * 6) To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
 * 7)  To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
 * 8)  To move (a camera) sideways.
 * , to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
 * 1)  To back out of something.
 * 1) To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
 * 2)  To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
 * 3)  To move (a camera) sideways.
 * , to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
 * 1)  To back out of something.
 * 1)  To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
 * 2)  To move (a camera) sideways.
 * , to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
 * 1)  To back out of something.
 * , to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
 * 1)  To back out of something.

Etymology 2
From, of origin, plausibly from , cognate with Swedish dialect.

Noun

 * 1)  The crab apple or wild apple.
 * 2) The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
 * 3) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
 * 4) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
 * 5) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
 * 6) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
 * 7) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
 * 1) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
 * 2) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
 * 3) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Verb

 * 1)  To irritate, make surly or sour
 * 2) To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
 * 3)  To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

Etymology 3
Possibly a corruption of the genus name

Noun

 * 1) The tree species, native to South America.

Etymology 4
From.

Etymology 1
Inherited from.

Etymology 2
Of origin, plausibly from.

Etymology
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