Krebs
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (surname): Creps
Etymology
editAs a German, Alemannic German, and occasionally Danish surname, from the noun Krebs (“crab”).
Proper noun
editKrebs (countable and uncountable, plural Krebs or Krebses)
- (countable) A surname from German.
- A city in Oklahoma, United States
Derived terms
editAnagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German krebz, krebez, krebeze, from Old High German crebiz, krebiz, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit, from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”), see also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”), Dutch kreeft.
The sense “cancer” is a semantic loan from Latin cancer. By metathesis from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kʁeːps/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /kʁɛps/ (regionally, chiefly western German)
Audio: (file) Audio: (file)
Noun
editKrebs m (strong, genitive Krebses, plural Krebse)
Declension
editHyponyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Danish: krebs
- → German Low German: Krebs
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kreps
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreps
- → Saterland Frisian: Krääps
- → Scanian: krævs
- → Yiddish: קרעבס (krebs)
See also
editZodiac signs in German (layout · text) | |||||||||||
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Widder | Stier | Zwillinge | Krebs | ||||||||
Löwe | Jungfrau | Waage | Skorpion | ||||||||
Schütze | Steinbock | Wassermann | Fische |
Further reading
editHunsrik
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German krebz, krebez, krebeze, from Old High German crebiz, krebiz, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editKrebs m (plural Krebs)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Alemannic German
- English terms derived from Danish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English surnames
- English surnames from German
- en:Cities in Oklahoma, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Oklahoma, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German semantic loans from Latin
- German terms derived from Latin
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Constellations in the zodiac
- de:Astrology
- de:Crustaceans
- de:Diseases
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Middle High German
- Hunsrik terms derived from Middle High German
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Old High German
- Hunsrik terms derived from Old High German
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Hunsrik 1-syllable words
- Hunsrik terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hunsrik lemmas
- Hunsrik nouns
- Hunsrik masculine nouns