roach

See also: Roach

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche ‎(“ray (fish)”); cognate with German Rochen ‎(“ray (fish)”).

Noun

roach ‎(plural roach)

1. Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
   1. Species in the genus Rutilus, especially:
      1. The common roach (Rutilus rutilus)
   2. The California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus

Etymology 2

Back-formation from cockroach, as if it were a compound.

Noun

roach ‎(plural roaches)

1. (US) A cockroach.

Etymology 3

Noun

roach ‎(plural roaches)

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

Translations

Rutilus rutilus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擬鯉, 拟鲤 ‎(nǐlǐ)

• Czech: plotice (cs) f
• Estonian: särg
• Finnish: särki (fi)
• French: gardon (fr) m
• German: Plötze f, Rotauge n
• Hungarian: bodorka
• Japanese: ローチ ‎(rōchi)

• Luxembourgish: Routa n
• Macedonian: црвеноперка f ‎(crvenopérka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mort (no) m

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

US: cockroach — see cockroach

slang: butt of a marijuana cigarette

• French: cul (fr) m, cul de joint m

• Macedonian: фас m ‎(fas)

nautical: curve in the bottom of a sail

• Italian: allunamento m

Anagrams

• achor, orach