"crabe" meaning in French

See crabe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kʁab/ Audio: Fr-crabe.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-crabe.wav [France] (note: Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost), LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-crabe.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-crabe.wav [France], LL-Q150 (fra)-Penegal-crabe.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-crabe.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-crabe.wav [France, Lyon] Forms: crabes [plural]
Rhymes: -ab Etymology: From a Norman dialect (compare Jèrriais crabe), partly from Old Norse krabbi and partly from Middle Dutch crabbe, both from Proto-Germanic *krabbô. Cognate with Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish”). More at crab. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|nrf|-}} Norman, {{der|fr|non|krabbi}} Old Norse krabbi, {{der|fr|dum|crabbe}} Middle Dutch crabbe, {{der|fr|gem-pro|*krabbô}} Proto-Germanic *krabbô, {{cog|ang|crabba|t=crab; crayfish}} Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} crabe m (plural crabes)
  1. crab Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-crabe-fr-noun-M0mpFffN Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Crabs Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Crabs: 95 5
  2. (informal) cancer Tags: informal, masculine
    Sense id: en-crabe-fr-noun-VgCumbFO Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: crabier, crochet à crabes, en crabe, marcher en crabe, panier de crabes, pince à crabes

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "crabier"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "crochet à crabes"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "marcher en crabe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "panier de crabes"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
  ],
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      "lang_code": "mfe",
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    }
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      "crabe#Norman"
    ],
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      "krabbi#Old_Norse"
    ],
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      "crabbe",
      "crabbe#Middle_Dutch"
    ],
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      "*krabbô",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/krabbô"
    ],
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      "crabba",
      "crabba#Old_English"
    ],
    [
      "crab",
      "crab#English"
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    },
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      },
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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      ]
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    },
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    "French entries with incorrect language header",
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    "French nouns",
    "French terms derived from Middle Dutch",
    "French terms derived from Norman",
    "French terms derived from Old Norse",
    "French terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
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    "Rhymes:French/ab/1 syllable",
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    "nrf:Crabs",
    "nrf:Insects"
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      "word": "crabier"
    },
    {
      "word": "crochet à crabes"
    },
    {
      "word": "en crabe"
    },
    {
      "word": "marcher en crabe"
    },
    {
      "word": "panier de crabes"
    },
    {
      "word": "pince à crabes"
    }
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      "lang_code": "mfe",
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      "crabbe#Middle_Dutch"
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      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/krabbô"
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}

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