cricket

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English

WOTD – 16 May 2008    

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Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈkɹɪk.ɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"krIk.It/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Etymology 1

From Old French criquet, from criquer (“to make a cracking sound”).

Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

1. An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
2. A wooden footstool.
3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
4. A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.
5. (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.

Derived terms

• chirpy as a cricket
• house cricket
• mole cricket
• Mormon cricket
• true cricket

Translations

insect

• Afrikaans: krieket (af)
• Albanian: bulkth (sq) m
• Arabic: جدجد (ar) (júdjud) m, صرصر (ar) (SurSur) m, صرصور (ar) (SurSûr) m

  Moroccan Arabic: صرصور (SarSur) m

• Armenian: ծղրիդ (hy) (çġrid) 
• Basque: kilker (eu)
• Belarusian: цвыркун (be) (cvyrkún) m 
• Bulgarian: щурец (bg) (šturéc) m 
• Catalan: grill (ca) m
• Chamicuro: c̈ho'kota
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟋蟀 (cmn) (xīshuài)

• Czech: cvrček (cs) m
• Dutch: krekel (nl) m
• Finnish: laulukaskas (fi)
• French: grillon (fr) m, cri-cri (fr) m, criquet (fr) m
• Galician: grilo (gl) m
• Georgian: ჭრიჭინა (ka) (čričina) 
• German: Grille (de) f
• Greek: γρύλος (el) (grýlos) m 
• Guaraní: kyju (gn)
• Hebrew: צַרְצוּר (he) (tzartzúr) m
• Hungarian: tücsök (hu)
• Icelandic: krybba (is) f
• Irish: cruicéad (ga) m
• Italian: grillo (it) m
• Japanese: コオロギ (ja) (kōrogi), 蟋蟀 (ja) (こおろぎ, kōrogi)
• Korean: 귀뚜라미 (ko) (gwitturami)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کوله (ku) (kolla)

• Latin: gryllus (la) m

• Latvian: circenis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: svirplys (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Grill (lb) f
• Macedonian: штурец (mk) (štúrec) m
• Malayalam: ചീവീട് (ml) (cheeveedu), മണ്ണട്ട (ml)
• Maltese: grillu (mt) m
• Navajo: nahakʼízii
• Persian: جیرجیرک (fa) (jirjirak)
• Polish: świerszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: grilo (pt) m
• Romanian: greier (ro) m
• Russian: сверчок (ru) (sverčók) m 
• Sanskrit: फालका (sa)
• Scottish Gaelic: greollan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цврчак (sh) m

  Roman: cvrčak (sh) m

• Sicilian: griddu (scn) m , ariddu m
• Slovak: svrček (sk) m, kriket (sk) m
• Slovene: čriček (sl) m, cvrček (sl) m
• Spanish: grillo (es) m
• Swedish: syrsa (sv) c
• Telugu: యిలకోడి (te) (yilakODi), కీచురాయి (te) (kIcuraayi)
• Thai: จิ้งหรีด (th) (jingreet)
• Turkish: cırcır böceği (tr)
• Ukrainian: цвіркун (uk) (cvirkún) m 
• Urdu: کرکٹ (ur) (krikeṭ) m
• Uzbek: qora chigirtka (uz)
• Vietnamese: con dế (vi), dế (vi)
• Walloon: crikion (wa) m, tchantrê (wa) m
• Welsh: criced (cy) m

a wooden footstool

• Albanian: fron (sq)

• Hungarian: sámli (hu)

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[1]

Cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

cricket (uncountable)

1. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
2. (chiefly UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.

   That player's foul wasn't cricket!

Usage notes

The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is always used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage.

• (An act that is unfair or unsportsmanlike): not cricket

Translations

game

• Albanian: kriket (sq)
• Arabic: كريكت (ar) (krikit) m
• Armenian: կրիկետ (hy) (kriket) 
• Bulgarian: крикет (bg) m (kriket)
• Catalan: criquet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 板球 (cmn) (bǎnqiú) - literally, "plank ball"

  Cantonese: 木球 (cmn) - literally, "wood ball"

• Czech: kriket (cs) m
• Dutch: cricket (nl) n
• Esperanto: kriketo (eo)
• Finnish: kriketti (fi)
• French: cricket (fr) m
• German: Cricket (de) n, Kricket (de) n
• Greek: κρίκετ (el) (kríket) n 
• Gujarati: ક્રિકેટ (gu) (krikeṭ)
• Hebrew: קְרִיקֶט (he) (qryqet')
• Hindi: क्रिकेट (hi) (krikeṭ) m
• Hungarian: krikett (hu)
• Irish: cruicéad (ga) m
• Italian: cricket (it) m

• Japanese: クリケット (ja) (kuriketto)
• Korean: 크리켓 (ko) (keuriket)
• Luxembourgish: Cricket (lb) m
• Macedonian: крикет (mk) (kríket) m
• Malay: kriket (ms)
• Marathi: क्रिकेट (mr) (krikeṭ)
• Norwegian: cricket (no) m
• Oriya: କ୍ରିକେଟ (or)
• Persian: کریکت (fa) (kriket)
• Polish: krykiet (pl) m
• Portuguese: críquete (pt) m
• Romanian: crichet (ro) n
• Russian: крикет (ru) (kríket) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: craigear (gd) m, criogaid (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крикет (sh) m

  Roman: kriket (sh) m

• Spanish: críquet (es) m, cricket (es) m
• Swahili: kriketi (sw)
• Swedish: cricket (sv) c, kricket (sv) c
• Telugu: క్రికెట్ (te) (krikeT)
• Thai: จิ้งหรีด (th)
• Urdu: کرکٹ (ur) (krikeṭ) m

fair and sportsmanlike act

• Dutch: fair-play (nl)
• Finnish: reilu (fi) (adjective), reilu peli (fi)

• Italian: fair play (it) m
• Swedish: fair play (sv) n

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• Afrikaans: krieket
• Asturian: críquet m
• Estonian: kriket (et)
• Galician: críquet
• Icelandic: krikket (is) n
• Lithuanian: kriketas (lt) m

• Maltese: krikkit
• Romanian: crichet (ro) n
• Sanskrit: क्रिकेट (krikeṭ)
• Sicilian: cricket (scn) m
• Slovene: kriket (sl) m
• Spanish: críquet (es) m

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See also

• Appendix:Glossary of cricket

Verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

1. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.

Translations

play the game of cricket

• Dutch: cricketen (nl)

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Dutch

Noun

cricket n (uncountable)

1. cricket (sport)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʁi.kɛt/, X-SAMPA: /kRi.kEt/

Noun

cricket m

1. cricket (sport)

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Italian

Noun

cricket m

1. cricket (sport)

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• kricket (less common)

Noun

cricket c (uncountable)

1. cricket (sport)

Declension

Declension of cricket

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	cricket	cricketen
genitive	crickets	cricketens

Derived terms

• cricketboll
• cricketlag
• cricketmatch
• cricketplan