kakkerlak

Signification (Anglais)

1. (masculine) cockroach (certain non-termite insect of the order Blattodea)
2. (derogatory, masculine) contemptible person
3. (colloquial, derogatory, masculine, often) supporter of Feyenoord

Concepts

blatte

🪳

cafard

cancrelat

🪳

cancrelas

punaise

🐛

Coccinelle

coléoptère

🪲

cafards

Synonymes

sissende kakkerlak

schildvleugelige

Kever

wants

kever

🪲

kakkerlakken

tor

🪲

Traductions

cockroach

🪳

cucaracha

🪳

Schabe

barata

🪳

scarafaggio

🪳

blatta

🪳

Kakerlak

escarabat

🪲

Küchenschabe

🪳

blatta

Kakerlake

🪳

hamamböceği

escarabat de cuina

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkɑ.kərˌlɑk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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 the insect. The Portuguese word has in turn been argued to be derived from a Caribbean word, from which Spanish cucaracha and hence English cockroach also originate. However, a more likely theory is that the Portuguese learned that name from the people in the then Dahomey. In Fon, kakalaka means cockroaches.