cockroach

English

A cockroach.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cockroach (plural cockroaches)

1. A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.
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. (slang, offensive) A derogatory term for a black-clad and black-masked protester in Hong Kong during the 2019 protests.

Synonyms

• (black or brown insect): roach (US)

Translations

type of insect

• Afrikaans: kakkerlak
• Alabama: iskanpatha
• Albanian: kacabu (sq)
• Arabic: صُرْصُور (ṣurṣūr)

  Egyptian Arabic: صرصار m (ṣurṣār)

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

  Tashelhit: ibnḍr m

• Brunei Bisaya: lipos
• Brunei Malay: lipas
• Bulgarian: хлеба́рка (bg) f (hlebárka)
• Burmese: ပိုးဟပ် (my) (pui:hap)
• Catalan: escarabat m, panerola (ca) f
• Central Melanau: belipeh
• Chichewa: mphemvu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 曱甴 (gaat⁶ zaat^6-2)

  Mandarin: 蟑螂 (zh) (zhāngláng), 蜚蠊 (zh) (fěilián), 偷油婆 (zh) (tōuyóupó)

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

• 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), russakka (fi)
• French: cafard (fr) m, blatte (fr) f
• Galician: carroucha (gl) f, cascuda 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)

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

  Kyushu: アマメ (amame)

• Javanese: coro
• Kazakh: тарақан (taraqan)
• Khmer: កន្លាត (km) (kɑnlaat)
• Kikuyu: nyeje
• Kimaragang: lipos
• Korean: 바퀴벌레 (ko) (bakwibeolle)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ,

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• 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: бубашваба f (bubašvaba), лебарка f (lebarka)
• Malagasy: kalabe (mg)
• Malay: lipas
• Malayalam: പാറ്റ (ml) (pāṟṟa), പാററ (pāṟaṟa)
• Maltese: wirdiena f, kokroċ m
• Maori: kēkerengū, kokoroihe
• Meru: njenje
• Minangkabau: lipeh (min)
• Mongolian: жоом (mn) (žoom)
• Muong: chản, chản chản
• Navajo: chʼoshtsoh
• Neapolitan: scarrafóne
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kakerlakk m

  Nynorsk: kakerlakk m

• Okinawan: ひーらー (hiiraa), 唐びーらー (とーびーらー, toobiiraa)
• Old Tupi: arabé
• Persian: سوسک (fa) (susk)
• Polish: karaluch (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: barata (pt) f, carocha (pt) f
• Romanian: gândac (ro) m, libarcă (ro) f
• Russian: тарака́н (ru) m (tarakán), пруса́к (ru) m (prusák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бубашваба f

  Roman: bubašvaba (sh) f, žohar (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)
• Telugu: బొద్దింక (te) (boddiṅka)
• Thai: แมลงสาบ (th), สาบ (th) (sàap)
• Tibetan: ཤོམ་འབུ (shom 'bu)
• Tswana: lefele
• Turkish: hamam böceği (tr)
• Turkmen: saçakçy, tarakan
• Tutong: lipos
• Uab Meto: iki
• Ukrainian: тарга́н m (tarhán)
• Urdu: جهنگر
• 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
• Yaeyama: 小虫 (くむす, kumusu)
• Yiddish: טאַראַקאַן (tarakan), רוס m (rus), פּרוסאַק m (prusak), קנײַפּער m (knayper), פֿראַנצויז m (frantsoyz), שוואַב m (shvab)
• Zhuang: sap

Further reading

• cockroach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia