Schabe

Meaning

1. (feminine) scraper, flat instrument with a handle used for scraping
2. (feminine) cockroach
3. (dialectal,feminine,obsolete) scabies

Concepts

cockroach

roach

scraper

bug

blackbeetle

beetle

coleopteron

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Etymology

From Middle High German schabe (“scraper, chaff, moulding; moth, cockroach”), from Old High German scaba (“scraper, plane”), from Proto-Germanic *skabō (“scraper”).
Cognate with Dutch schaaf (“plane”). Also related to German Low German Schabbe (“mange, scabies”), English scab.