Schabe

Meaning

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

Concepts

cockroach

🪳

roach

bug

🐛

scraper

blackbeetle

beetle

🪲

coleopteron

Synonyms

Kakerlake

🪳

Kakerlak

Küchenschabe

🪳

Kuchenschabe

Karkelake

Maikäfer

Wanze

Käfer

🪲

Translations

cucaracha

🪳

kakkerlak

🪳

scarafaggio

🪳

blatte

🪳

cafard

barata

🪳

blatta

🪳

escarabat

🪲

hamamböceği

κατσαρίδα

cancrelat

🪳

tinea

blatta

blata

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: schabe

Inherited from Old High German: scaba

Cognate with Dutch: schaaf

Cognate with English: scab

In summary

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.