Some crayfish. Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Alteration (by folk etymology , influenced by fish ) of Middle English crevis , from Old French crevice ( "crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse ) , from Frankish *krebitja ( “ crayfish ” ) , diminutive of Frankish *krebit ( “ crab ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz ( “ crab, cancer ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- , *gerebʰ- ( “ to scratch, crawl ” ) . Akin to Old High German krebiz ( "edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs ( “ crab ” ) ) , Middle Low German krēvet ( “ crab ” ) , Dutch kreeft ( “ crayfish, lobster ” ) , Old English crabba ( “ crab ” ) . More at crab .
Pronunciation Edit
crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish )
Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea , resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
( New England , Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae ), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait .
( Australia , New Zealand , South Africa ) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae ).
( Australia ) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae ), such as the gilgie , marron , or yabby .
( Singapore ) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae ).Usage notes Edit
The term crayfish predominates in the region of New England and in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In much of the United States—in the South, especially in Louisiana and Texas; in the Midwest and in the West—crawfish predominates. In a belt stretching across Kentucky through Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and in Oregon and northern California, the term crawdad predominates.[1]
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Translations Edit
freshwater crustacean resembling lobster
Afrikaans: kreef
Albanian: gaforre (sq) m
Armenian: խեցգետին (hy) ( xecʿgetin ) , ռակ (hy) ( ṙak ) ( Armenia, colloquial )
Azerbaijani: xərçəng (az)
Bashkir: ҡыҫала ( qıθala )
Basque: ibai-karramarro
Belarusian: рак m ( rak )
Bislama: naora
Bulgarian: ре́чен рак m ( réčen rak ) , рак (bg) m ( rak )
Burmese: ပုစွန် (my) ( pu.cwan )
Catalan: cranc de riu m
Catawba: iise
Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏛᎾ ( tsisdvna )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小龍蝦 / 小龙虾 (zh) ( xiǎolóngxiā ) , 蝲蛄 (zh) ( làgǔ )
Choctaw: shakchi
Coptic: ⲭⲁⲣⲕⲓⲛⲟⲥ m ( kharkinos ) , ⲕⲁⲣⲕⲓⲛⲟⲥ m ( karkinos )
Czech: rak (cs) m
Danish: krebs c
Dutch: rivierkreeft (nl) m
Esperanto: kankro
Estonian: jõevähk
Finnish: rapu (fi)
French: écrevisse (fr) f ( freshwater ) , langoustine (fr) f ( saltwater )
Georgian: მდინარის კიბო ( mdinaris ḳibo )
German: Flusskrebs (de) m
Alemannic German: Chräps m
Greek: ποταμοκαραβίδα f ( potamokaravída )
Ancient: κάραβος m ( kárabos )
Guaraní: japeusa
Hebrew: סרטן הנהרות m
Hindi: चिंगट (hi) ( ciṅgaṭ ) , क्रेफ़िश ( krefiś )
Hungarian: rák (hu) , folyami rák
Icelandic: vatnakrabbi m
Ido: kankro (io)
Ingrian: krapu
Italian: aragosta (it) f , gambero (it) m , gambero di fiume m
Japanese: 蝲蛄 (ja) ( zarigani ) , ザリガニ (ja) ( zarigani )
Kazakh: шаян ( şaän )
Khmer: បង្កង (km) ( bɑngkɑɑng ) , កំពឹស (km) ( kɑmpɨh )
Korean: 가재 (ko) ( gajae )
Kyrgyz: рак (ky) ( rak )
Lao: ໂກ່ມ ( kōm ) , ກຸ້ງ (lo) ( kung )
Latgalian: viezs m
Latin: cancer (la) m , carabus m
Latvian: vēzis (lv) m
Lithuanian: vėžys m
Macedonian: рак m ( rak )
Maori: koura , kēwai
Mari:
Eastern Mari: рак ( rak )
Western Mari: рӓк ( räk )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хавч (mn) ( xavč )
Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠪᠴᠢ ( qabči )
Navajo: tooh chʼoshtsoh bíláshgaantsohí
Norman: crabe à co f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kreps (no) m
Nynorsk: kreps m
Occitan: escarabissa (oc) , esgaravissa
Ojibwe: ashaageshiinh
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: ракъ m ( rakŭ )
Old East Slavic: ракъ m ( rakŭ )
Persian: چنگاره ( čangâre ) , خارچنگ ( xârčang )
Polish: rak (pl) m
Portuguese: lagostim (pt) m
Quechua: apanqura
Romanian: rac (ro) m
Russian: рак (ru) m ( rak ) , лангу́ст (ru) ( langúst ) ( saltwater )
Rusyn: рак m ( rak )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рак m
Roman: rak (sh) m
Slovak: rak m
Slovene: rak (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rak m
Upper Sorbian: rak m
Spanish: cangrejo de río m , cangrejo (es) m
Swedish: kräfta (sv) c
Tajik: харчанг ( xarčang ) , саратон (tg) ( saraton )
Tatar: кысла (tt) ( qısla )
Thai: เครย์ฟิช ( kree-fít ) , กุ้ง (th) ( gûng )
Tok Pisin: kindam
Turkish: kerevit (tr)
Turkmen: leňňeç
Udmurt: кисло-кусло ( kislo-kuslo )
Ukrainian: рак (uk) m ( rak )
Uyghur: قىسقۇچپاقا ( qisquchpaqa )
Uzbek: qisqichbaqa (uz) , saraton (uz) , rak (uz)
Vietnamese: tôm đồng
Yiddish: ראַק ( rak )
crayfish (third-person singular simple present crayfishes , present participle crayfishing , simple past and past participle crayfished )
to catch crayfish
Alternative form of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)Translations Edit
References Edit
^ “Archived copy”, in (please provide the title of the work) [1] , accessed 29 July 2013 , archived from the original on 2013-06-06
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