crab
意味
- カニ;カニの肉
- 《話》気むずかし屋
ぶつぶつ不平を言う
…をふくれさせる
= crab louse(毛ジラミ)
例文
Shrimps, crabs, and lobsters are crustaceans.
エビ・カニ・ロブスターは甲殻類です。
The red king crab is a large crustacean.
鱈場蟹は大型甲殻類である。
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
蟹を縦に歩かせることはできない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“to scratch”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). More at carve. Cognates See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba. Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.