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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k?æb/, enPR: kr?b
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabb?, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabb?n? (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grob?- (“scratch, claw at”), a variant of *gereb?-. More at carve.

Noun

crab (countable and uncountable, plural crabs)

1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
3. A bad-tempered person.
4. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).

5. (uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.

6. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
7. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
8. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 116

     -- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place." There was something in the secretary's manner that puzzled Philip. It was a little doubtful. -- "What's the crab in it?" he asked.

   • 1940, Horace Annesley Vachell, Little Tyrannies

     Arrested by the low price of another “desirable residence”, I asked “What's the crab?” The agent assured me that there was no crab. I fell in love with this house at sight. Happily, I discovered that it was reputed to be haunted.

9. (dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
   • 1844, Albert Henry Payne, Payne's universum, or pictorial world (page 99)

     […] the unsold copies may be returned to the original publisher , at a period fixed upon between Christmas and Easter; these returned copies are technically called krebse or crabs, probably, from their walking backwards. […] A says to B, "I have had eight thousand dollars' worth of your publications, three thousand were crabs, that makes five thousand."

   • 1892, The Publishers Weekly (volume 41, page 709)

     […] unsold copies and settling the yearly accounts; while for the publisher begins the much dreaded season of "crabs," as […]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

1. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
2. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 224:

     ‘Just so we understand each other,’ he said after a pause. ‘If you crab this case, you'll be in a jam.’

3. (intransitive) To complain.
4. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

5. (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
6. (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
   • 1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen (page 109)

     If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]

7. (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
8. (rare) To back out of something.

Derived terms

• crabber
• crabbing

Etymology 2

From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba.

Noun

crab (plural crabs)

1. The crab apple or wild apple.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 2 scene 2

     I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;

     And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;

2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Garrick to this entry?)

4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Synonyms

• (crab apple): crab apple
• (tree): crab apple

Derived terms

Verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Fletcher to this entry?)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Possibly a corruption of the genus name Carapa

Noun

crab (plural crabs)

1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

Derived terms

• crab-nut
• crab oil

Etymology 4

From carabiner.

Noun

crab (plural crabs)

1. (informal) Short for carabiner.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
• Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language. International Edition. combined with Britannica World Language Dictionary. Chicago-London etc., Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., 1965.

Anagrams

• BRAC, RBAC, carb, carb-, cbar

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English crabba.

Noun

crab

1. Alternative form of crabbe (“crab”)

Etymology 2

Of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic.

Noun

crab

1. Alternative form of crabbe (“crabapple”)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French crabe.

Noun

crab m (plural crabi)

1. crab

See also

• crevet?
• homar
• rac

English

Etymology 1

Circa 1650, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company, who sourced their tea in Amoy; compare Malay teh along the same trade route. Doublet of chai and cha (and, distantly, lahpet), from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root; see discussion of cognates.

Alternative forms

• tay

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /ti/, [t?i]
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /ti?/, [t?i?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: T, te, tee, ti

Noun

tea (countable and uncountable, plural teas)

1. (uncountable) The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.

2. (uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

3. (uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
4. (uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.

5. (uncountable) Meat stock served as a hot drink.

6. (countable, Commonwealth of Nations, northern US) A cup or (East Asia, Southern US) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.
7. (uncountable, Britain) A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 23:

     Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen.

8. (uncountable, Commonwealth of Nations) Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.

9. (cricket) The break in play between the second and third sessions.
10. (slang, dated) Synonym of marijuana.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, page 103:

      So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […] .

    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & al., Really the Blues, Payback Press, 1999, page 74:

      Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.

    • 1947 March 11, William Burroughs, letter:

      Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.

11. (slang, especially gay slang and African-American Vernacular) Information, especially gossip.
    • 2015, Sonya Shuman, Doors of the Church Are Open: Smoke & Mirrors by Sonya Shuman:

      "What's the tea on you and China? Where she at Alicia? You should know where ya baby at."

Usage notes

In most places tea is assumed to mean hot tea, while in the southern United States, it is assumed to mean iced tea.

Synonyms

• (plant): tea plant, tea tree, tea bush
• (leaves): tea leaves
• (beverage): see Thesaurus:tea
• (beverages similar to tea): herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisane
• (a light meal): see afternoon tea & Thesaurus:meal

Hyponyms

• (beverage): see Thesaurus:tea

Derived terms

Descendants

• Gullah: tea
• Jamaican Creole: tea
• ? Abenaki: ti
• ? Chickasaw: tii'
• ? Cocopa: ?i·
• ? Cornish: té
• ? Cree:

  Canadian syllabics: ?? (tiy)

  Latin: tiy

• ? Inuktitut: ? (tii)
• ? Irish: tae
• ? Maori: t?
• ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
• ? Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
• ? Panamint: tii
• ? Telugu: ?? (??)
• ? Unami: ti
• ? Welsh: te

Translations

See tea/translations § Noun.

Verb

tea (third-person singular simple present teas, present participle teaing, simple past and past participle teaed)

1. To drink tea.
2. To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
   • 1877, The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)

     The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (“tea”).

Noun

tea (plural teas)

1. A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction.

Usage notes

This term is found in English translations of Chinese-language historical fiction, where it is used to give the work an ancient Chinese feel.

References

Anagrams

• -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, a.e.t., aet, ate, eat, eta, æt.

Basque

Noun

tea

1. absolutive singular of te

Ese

Noun

tea

1. feces; excrement

Galician

Etymology 1

13th century (Cantigas de Santa Maria). From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tea, from Latin t?la. Cognate with Portuguese teia and Spanish tela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tea?/

Noun

tea f (plural teas)

1. (uncountable) cloth
2. (countable) a piece of cloth
   • 1326, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 300:

     It. mando que todollos lenços delgados et teas de rens que os tome Garcia perez. et que faça delles fazer uestimentas para o altar de Sta Maria.

     Item, I command that every fine linen and the clothes of Reims to be taken by Garcia Perez, who should make them into clothes for the altar of Saint Mary

3. spiderweb

   Synonym: arañeira

4. canvas

   Synonym: lenzo

5. film (skin)

   Synonym: película

Derived terms

• tear

Etymology 2

13th century (Cantigas de Santa Maria). From Latin taeda, from Ancient Greek ???? (dáos, “torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tea?/

Noun

tea f (plural teas)

1. torch

   Synonyms: facha, fachuzo

References

• “tea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê, “tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??], [?t?j?]
• Hyphenation: tea
• Rhymes: -?, -j?

Noun

tea (plural teák)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• tea in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Maori

Adjective

tea

1. white

Derived terms

• Aotearoa

Rapa Nui

Noun

tea

1. dawn

Derived terms

• tea tea

Sedang

Noun

tea

1. water
2. body of water: river, lake, etc
3. liquid
4. wine

References

• Kenneth D. Smith, Sedang Dictionary (2012), page 375

Spanish

Alternative forms

• teda (rare)

Etymology

From Latin taeda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tea/, [?t?e.a]

Noun

tea f (plural teas)

1. torch (a stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source)

   Synonym: antorcha
2. (colloquial) intoxication, drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Further reading

• “tea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.