crab

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
3. (countable, uncountable) Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
4. (countable, uncountable) Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
5. (countable, uncountable) A bad-tempered person.
6. (countable, informal, uncountable) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
7. (uncountable) 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.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable) A playing card with the rank of three.
9. (countable, uncountable) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
10. (countable, uncountable) A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
11. (countable, dated, uncountable) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
2. (US, slang, transitive) To ruin.
3. (intransitive) To complain.
4. (transitive) To complain about.
5. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
6. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
7. (transitive) To move (a camera) sideways.
8. (transitive) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
9. (World-War-I, obsolete) 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.
10. (rare) To back out of something.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
3. (British, dialectal) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
4. (obsolete, transitive) To offend or insult.

Concepts

crabe

🦀

écrevisse

morpion

tourteau

morpions

ronchonner

rouspéter

bœuf

🐂

cancer

♋

carapa

maugréer

pomme sauvage

pou de pubis

maronner

Cancer

♋

pou du pubis

cancre

grogner

râler

récriminer

Synonymes

lobster

🦞

crayfish

crab louse

pubic louse

Cancer

♋

crabmeat

grouse

crabby person

beef

Phthirius pubis

hermit crab

holler

mud crab

squawk

criticize

bellyache

carp

bitch

crawfish

Brachyura

gripe

cancer

♋

large

kvetch

nag

niggle

nudge

pan

purchase

🛍️

reel

ruin

saddle

scarify

score

scratch

shellfish

spoil

troublemaker

trouble maker

troubler

upbraid

whim

whine

yaw

crabwood

cry down

Astacus

Old World crayfish

ecrevisse

scranch

Traductions

cangrejo

🦀

granchio

🦀

Krabbe

🦀

caranguejo

🦀

Krebs

krab

🦀

cranc

🦀

yengeç

🦀

καβούρι

cancer

🦀

سرطان

🦀

κάβουρας

nörgeln

cranc

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɹæb/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: crabbe

Hérité de ancien anglais: crabba

Appartenant à néerlandais: krab

Appartenant à saterlandais: krabbelje

Appartenant à néerlandais: krabbelen

Appartenant à allemand: krabbeln

Appartenant à anglais: creep

Appartenant à suédois: krypa

In summary

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.
Other origins have also been suggested, see Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos) (regarding the possibility of a substrate origin) and Persian خرچنگ (regarding possible ideophonic origin); compare also Old Armenian քարբ (kʻarb), German Krebs.