crayfish

Etymology
Alteration (by folk etymology, influenced by ) of, from "crayfish"; > Modern French:, from , diminutive of , from , from ,. Akin to 🇨🇬 "edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at crab.

Noun

 * 1) Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily  or, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
 * 2)  A freshwater crustacean (family ), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
 * 3)  A rock lobster (family ).
 * 4)  A freshwater crayfish (family ), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
 * 5)  The species  of the slipper lobster family.

Usage notes
Within the US, the term crayfish predominates in the region of New England and in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In much of the United States—in the South, especially in Louisiana and Texas; in the Midwest and in the West—crawfish predominates. In a belt stretching across Kentucky through Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and in Oregon and northern California, the term crawdad predominates.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kreef
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡыҫала
 * Basque: ibai-karramarro
 * Belarusian: рак
 * Bislama: naora
 * Bulgarian: ре́чен рак,
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: рак
 * Catalan: cranc de riu
 * Catawba: iise
 * Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏛᎾ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Choctaw: shakchi
 * Coptic: ⲭⲁⲣⲕⲓⲛⲟⲥ, ⲕⲁⲣⲕⲓⲛⲟⲥ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: krebs
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kankro
 * Estonian: jõevähk
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: მდინარის კიბო
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Chräps
 * Greek: ποταμοκαραβίδα
 * Ancient: κάραβος
 * Guaraní: japeusa
 * Hebrew: סרטן הנהרות
 * Hindi:, क्रेफ़िश
 * Hungarian:, folyami rák
 * Icelandic: vatnakrabbi
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: krapu
 * Italian:, , gambero di fiume
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: шаян
 * Khmer: ,
 * Klamath-Modoc: Goy'a
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໂກ່ມ,
 * Latgalian: viezs
 * Latin:, carabus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vėžys
 * Macedonian: рак
 * Maori: koura, kēwai
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: рак
 * Western Mari: рӓк
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠪᠴᠢ
 * Navajo: tooh chʼoshtsoh bíláshgaantsohí
 * Norman: crabe à co
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kreps
 * Occitan:, esgaravissa
 * Ojibwe: ashaageshiinh
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: ракъ
 * Old East Slavic: ракъ
 * Pawnee: paaʼus
 * Persian: چنگاره, خارچنگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: apanqura
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рак
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: rak
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rak
 * Upper Sorbian: rak
 * Spanish: cangrejo de río,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: харчанг,
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: เครย์ฟิช,
 * Tok Pisin: kindam
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: leňňeç
 * Udmurt: кисло-кусло
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: قىسقۇچپاقا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: cimwch yr afon
 * Yiddish: ראַק

Verb

 * 1) To catch crayfish.
 * 2)  (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)

Translations

 * Maori: pouraka