roach

English

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊtʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊtʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ

Etymology 1

From Old French roche, of unknown origin.

Noun

roach (plural roaches)

1. A small freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae), Rutilus rutilus.

Noun

roach (plural roaches)

1. (US) A cockroach.
2. (US, slang, smoking) A butt of a marijuana cigarette.
3. (UK, slang, smoking) The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
4. (nautical) An extra curve of material added to the leech edge of a sail to increase the sail area.
5. A kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America.

Translations

Rutilus rutilus

• Czech: plotice (cs) f
• Estonian: särg
• Finnish: särki (fi)
• French: gardon (fr) m
• German: Plötze f, Rotauge n
• Hungarian: bodorka
• Luxembourgish: Routa n
• Macedonian: црвеноперка f (crvenopérka)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mort (no) m

• Polish: płoć (pl) f
• Russian: плотва (ru) f (plotvá)
• Serbo-Croatian: bodorka (sh) f
• Spanish: leucisco m, rutilo (es)
• Swedish: mört (sv) c

slang: butt of a marijuana cigarette

• French: cul (fr) m, cul de joint m

• Macedonian: фас m (fas)

US: cockroach — see cockroach

nautical: curve in the bottom of a sail

• Italian: allunamento m

Anagrams

• achor, orach