cockroach

English

A cockroach.

Etymology

From Spanish cucaracha (“woodlouse”), from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, via folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cockroach (plural cockroaches)

1. A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.

   Synonym: (US) roach

2. (slang, offensive) A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
3. (offensive, slang, ethnic slur, Rwanda) A Tutsi.
4. (Australia, slang, derogatory, humorous) A person from New South Wales.
5. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A hard lump of brown sugar.

Derived terms

• roach

Descendants

• Bislama: kakros
• Tok Pisin: kokoros

Translations

type of insect

• Afrikaans: kakkerlak
• Alabama: iskanpatha
• Albanian: kacabu (sq)
• Amharic: በረሮ (bäräro)
• Arabic: صُرْصُور m (ṣurṣūr)

  Iraqi Arabic: صرصر m (ṣurṣur), بنت وردان m (bent wurdān)

  Egyptian Arabic: صرصار m (ṣurṣār)

  Hijazi Arabic: صرصار m (ṣurṣār), صرصور m (ṣarṣūr)

  Moroccan Arabic: سراق الزيت (sarrāq ez-zīt)

• Aragonese: cucaracho m
• Armenian: ուտիճ (hy) (utič), խավարասեր (hy) (xavaraser)
• Assamese: পঁইতাচোৰা (põitasüra)
• Asturian: cucaracha f
• Azerbaijani: tarakan, mətbəxböcəyi, mətbəxqurdu
• Bashkir: тараҡан (taraqan)
• Basque: labezomorro
• Bau Bidayuh: ribabie
• Belait: katibung
• Belarusian: тарака́н m (tarakán), пруса́к m (prusák)
• Bengali: তেলাপোকা (telapōka), আরশুলা (arśula)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: ibnḍr m

• Bikol Central: ipis (bcl)
• Brunei Bisaya: lipos
• Brunei Malay: lipas
• Bulgarian: хлеба́рка (bg) f (hlebárka)
• Burmese: ပိုးဟပ် (my) (pui:hap)
• Catalan: escarabat (ca) m, panerola (ca) f
• Cebuano: ipos, uk-ok
• Central Melanau: belipeh
• Chichewa: mphemvu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 曱甴 (gaat⁶ zaat^6-2)

  Hakka: 黃蚻／黄蚻, 黄蚻 (vòng-chha̍t)

  Mandarin: 蟑螂 (zh) (zhāngláng), 蜚蠊 (zh) (fěilián), 偷油婆 (tōuyóupó) (dialectal), 小強／小强 (zh) (xiǎoqiáng), 小强 (zh) (xiǎoqiáng) (colloquial)

  Min Dong: 虼蚻 (gâ-săk / gáh-săk)

  Min Nan: 虼蚻 (zh-min-nan) (ka-choa̍h)

  Wu: 蟑螂 (tsaan laan), 小強／小强 (⁵shiau-jian), 小强 (xiau jjian)

• Crimean Tatar: qoñuz
• Czech: šváb (cs) m
• Danish: kakerlak (da) c
• Dutch: kakkerlak (nl) f, sissende kakkerlak f
• Esperanto: blato
• Estonian: prussakas
• Faroese: grótlús f, (colloquial) kakkulakkur m
• Finnish: torakka (fi)
• French: cafard (fr) m, blatte (fr) f
• Galician: carroucha (gl) f, cascuda (gl) f, cascudo m
• Georgian: აბანოს ჭია (abanos č̣ia), ტარაკანი (ka) (ṭaraḳani)
• German: Schabe (de) f, Kakerlake (de) f
• Greek: κατσαρίδα (el) f (katsarída)

  Ancient: σίλφη f (sílphē)

• Guaraní: tarave
• Haitian Creole: blat
• Hausa: kyànkyasṑ m
• Hebrew: ג׳וּק m (juk), תִּיקָן (he) m (tikan)
• Hiligaynon: tanga
• Hindi: तिलचट्टा m (tilcaṭṭā), तिलचटा (hi) m (tilacṭā), चपड़ा (hi) m (capṛā)
• Hungarian: csótány (hu)
• Icelandic: kakkalakki (is) m
• Ido: blato (io)
• Ilocano: ipes
• Indonesian: kecoak (id), kacoa, kecoa
• Interlingua: blatta
• Irish: blatóg f
• Italian: blatta (it) f, scarafaggio (it) m
• Japanese: ゴキブリ (ja) (gokiburi), 蜚蠊 (ja) (ゴキブリ, gokiburi)

  Kyushu: アマメ (amame)

• Javanese: coro
• Kanakanabu: 'atatavaang
• Kashmiri: ؤٹِل (vạṭil)
• Kazakh: тарақан (taraqan)
• Khmer: កន្លាត (km) (kɑnlaat)
• Kikuyu: nyeje
• Kimaragang: lipos
• Korean: 바퀴벌레 (ko) (bakwibeolle)
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• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سیسرک (sîsrik), سیسارک (ckb) (sîsark)

  Northern Kurdish: sisirk

• Kyrgyz: таракан (ky) (tarakan)
• Lao: ສາບ (sāp), ແມງສາບ (mǣng sāp)
• Latgalian: brusaks m
• Latin: blatta (la) f
• Latvian: prusaks, tarakāns m
• Lithuanian: tarakonas m
• Macedonian: лебарка f (lebarka), бубашваба f (bubašvaba) (non-standard)
• Malagasy: kalabe (mg)
• Malay: lipas (ms)
• Malayalam: പാറ്റ (ml) (pāṟṟa), പാററ (pāṟaṟa)
• Maltese: wirdien m, kokroċ m
• Maori: kēkerengū, kokoroihe, papata
• Meru: njenje
• Minangkabau: lipeh (min)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: жоом (mn) (žoom)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠣᠣᠮ᠎ᠠ (ǰoom-a)

• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴱⴰⵏⴹⵕⵉⵡ (abanḍṛiw)
• Muong: chản, chản chản
• Navajo: chʼoshtsoh
• Neapolitan: scarrafóne
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kakerlakk m

  Nynorsk: kakerlakk m

• Occitan: barbaròt (oc) m
• Okinawan: ひーらー (hīrā), 唐びーらー (とーびーらー, tōbīrā)
• Old Tupi: arabé
• Pashto: ګړندۍ f (gaṛandǝ́y)
• Persian: سوسک (fa) (susk)
• Plautdietsch: Schaub f
• Polish: karaluch (pl) m anim, karakan (pl) m (colloquial), karaczan (pl) m
• Portuguese: barata (pt) f, carocha (pt) f
• Romanian: gândac (ro) m, libarcă (ro) f
• Russian: тарака́н (ru) m (tarakán), пруса́к (ru) m (prusák)
• Saaroa: 'atatavangʉ
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бубашва́ба f, жо̏ха̄р m (Croatia)

  Roman: bubašvába (sh) f, žȍhār (sh) m (Croatia)

• Slovak: šváb (sk) m
• Slovene: ščurek (sl) m
• Sotho: lephela
• Spanish: cucaracha (es) f
• Sundanese: ᮎᮥᮎᮥᮍᮥᮊ᮪ (cucunguk)
• Swahili: mende (sw) class 9/10, kombamwiko (sw)
• Swedish: kackerlacka (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: lipos
• Tagalog: ipis
• Tajik: нонхӯрак (tg) (nonxürak)
• Tamil: கக்கலாத்து (ta) (kakkalāttu), கரப்பான் பூச்சி (karappāṉ pūcci)
• Tatar: таракан (taraqan)
• Telugu: బొద్దింక (te) (boddiṅka)
• Tetum: barata
• Thai: แมลงสาบ (th), สาบ (th) (sàap)
• Tibetan: ཤོམ་འབུ (shom 'bu)
• Tigrinya: ድዱዕ (dəduʿ)
• Tswana: lefele
• Turkish: hamam böceği (tr)
• Turkmen: saçakçy, tarakan
• Tutong: lipos
• Uab Meto: iki
• Ukrainian: тарга́н m (tarhán), тарака́н m (tarakán), пруса́к m (prusák)
• Urdu: تل چٹا m (til caṭṭā)
• Uyghur: مايقۇرت (mayqurt)
• Uzbek: suvarak (uz), tezgizak (uz), tarakan (uz)
• Vietnamese: gián (vi)
• Volapük: skaraf
• Welsh: chwilen ddu f, blac-pat m
• West Coast Bajau: bobok
• Wolof: mbóot mi
• Yiddish: טאַראַקאַן (tarakan), רוס m (rus), פּרוסאַק m (prusak), קנײַפּער m (knayper), פֿראַנצויז m (frantsoyz), שוואַב m (shvab)
• Zazaki: nankewerık
• Zhuang: sap

Further reading

• cockroach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia