shrimp

(Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
2. (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) A small, puny or unimportant person.
4. (countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable) Synonym of butterface
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) A small dick.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To fish for shrimp.
2. To contract; to shrink.

Berevajî

micropenis

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ʃɹɪmp/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: schrimpe

Hevwate bi Middle High German: schrimpf

Hevwate bi norwecî: skramp

Hevwate bi Old English: sċrimman

Hevwate bi Middle High German: schrimpfen

Hevwate bi swêdî: skrympa

Hevwate bi lîtwanî: skrembti

Hevwate bi elbanî: shkrumb

In summary

From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), possibly from or related to Middle Low German schrempen (“to wrinkle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr̥mb-.
See also Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”); also Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”); also Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”).

Têgeh

canberî

Hevwate

prawn

lobster

🦞

runt

crayfish

prawns

macroura

half-pint

peewee

midget

crawfish

kiddy

homunculus

crustacean

runty

shorty

shrimps

squirt

tiddler

weakling

wuss

kind of fish

manikin

Werger

crevette

🦐

camarón

🦐

gamberetto

🦐

Garnele

🦐

gamba

🦐

krewetka

garnaal

🦐

camarão

🦐

gamba

🦵

karides

🦐

γαρίδα

quisquilla

🦐

granchiolino

Krabbe

🦀

gambero