scarabaeus

Meaning

1. (declension-2, masculine) A scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient Egypt.
2. (declension-2, masculine) A beetle

Concepts

beetle

🪲

bug

🐛

Synonyms

coleopterum

Translations

خنفساء

escarabat

🪲

Skarabeus

Käfer -s

σκαθάρι

σκαραβαίος

scarabée

🪲

scarabeo

coleottero

tor

🪲

kever

🪲

besouro

🪲

escaravelho

🪲

escarabajo

🪲

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ska.raˈbae̯.ʊs]

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps a foreign word, or with movable s- connected to the large family of words for shrimps, crayfish, scorpions and crabs beginning with /kaɾ/ mentioned at Persian خرچنگ (xarčang, “crab”), in which case borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle; crayfish”).