scab

Etymology
From, (also as ,  > 🇨🇬), from  and , both from , from. . Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
 * 2)  The scabies.
 * 3) The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
 * 4)  Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
 * 5) Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by.
 * 6)  Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
 * 7)  A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
 * 8) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
 * 9)   A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to.
 * 10) * c. 1910s, (attributed), The Scab:
 * When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.
 * 1)   A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to.
 * 2) * c. 1910s, (attributed), The Scab:
 * When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.
 * 1)   A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to.
 * 2) * c. 1910s, (attributed), The Scab:
 * When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: qadux̂
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: جُلْبَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: postiella
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡутыр
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: струп, каро́ста
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ко́ричка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, crostera
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏣᏍᏓᎸ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: qotur
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sårskorpe
 * Dutch: wondkorst,
 * Esperanto: krusto
 * Estonian: kärn, korp
 * Faroese: skrubb, skabb
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:, trallada, , lastra, ,
 * Georgian: ქეცი, მუნი
 * German: ;, Wundschorf, Wundkruste
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hrúður
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: rupi, kärnä
 * Irish: gearb
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қабыршақ
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latgalian: kreve
 * Latin: crusta
 * Latvian: krevele
 * Lithuanian: šãšas
 * Luxembourgish: Roff
 * Maori: paku, pāpaka, wenewene
 * Mirandese:
 * Northern Sami: ruobbi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flein
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: sċeabb
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Roof
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , casquinha,
 * Punjabi:, ਖਰੀਂਡ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgreab
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кра̏ста
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: chrasta
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: langib
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྨ་ཁོག
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: струп,
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: cramen, crach


 * Czech: strupovitost
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: gearbach
 * Italian:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: perunarupi
 * German: Kartoffelschorf
 * Irish: gearbach
 * Italian: ,


 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: gearbach
 * Italian:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Russian:


 * Norman:

Verb

 * 1)  To become covered by a scab or scabs.
 * 2)  To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
 * 3) * 1734, Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7, |scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=rfp867GOSb&sig=PIQ7DioGdAzIkZqDxVX1yugqphE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 631,
 * Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
 * 1)  To remove part of a surface (from).
 * 2)  To act as a strikebreaker.
 * 3)  To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
 * I scabbed some money off a friend.
 * 1) * 2004, Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, |scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=qlA-afCBV7&sig=lXUliS1VwJnx_G_anuGODOuqv0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 143,
 * Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d scabbed off the garçon.
 * 1) * 2006, Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia, |scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=a7BbqYTa_w&sig=1rsWuT5FlKRIoDemvOiF5rIwnok&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,
 * I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
 * I scabbed some money off a friend.
 * 1) * 2004, Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, |scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=qlA-afCBV7&sig=lXUliS1VwJnx_G_anuGODOuqv0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 143,
 * Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d scabbed off the garçon.
 * 1) * 2006, Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia, |scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=a7BbqYTa_w&sig=1rsWuT5FlKRIoDemvOiF5rIwnok&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,
 * I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: зараствам, хващам кора
 * Finnish: rupeutua
 * French:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: обелвам се
 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: rikkuroida


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: