# кацап
## Belarusian
### Etymology

See Ukrainian каца́п (kacáp)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kaˈt͡sap]

### Noun

каца́п • (kacáp) m pers (genitive каца́па, nominative plural каца́пы, genitive plural каца́паў)
* (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) katsap, a Russian person, Russian, Russki

#### Declension

$^1$Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

#### Synonyms

* кацала́п (kacaláp)
* маска́ль (maskálʹ)

### Further reading

* “кацап” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

## Russian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian каца́п (kacáp).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kɐˈt͡sap]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

каца́п • (kacáp) m anim (genitive каца́па, nominative plural каца́пы, genitive plural каца́пов, feminine каца́пка)
* (Ukraine, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) katsap, a Russian person, Russian, Russki
    Synonym: моска́ль (moskálʹ)

#### Declension
## Ukrainian
### Alternative forms

* кацаб (kacab) — Western Ukraine
* касап (kasap) — Internet slang

### Etymology

From цап (cap, “billy goat”) with a prefix ка- (ka-). Likening a stereotypically bearded Russian man to a goat. An alleged folk etymology explains the word as “как-цап” (kak-cap, “like a billy goat”), deriving from Russian как (kak, “as”), however there is no factual evidence supporting this theory.
Another etymology conclusion is insufficiently substantiated, supposedly came to wide use after massacre of Kazan in 1552: from Turkish kasap (“butcher”), from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”). Compare Hebrew קצב (“butcher”), Crimean Tatar къасап (“butcher”), Ukrainian закаца́пити (zakacápyty, “kill, slaughter”), Bulgarian касап (kasap, “butcher”) and касапин (kasapin, “butcher”), Serbo-Croatian kasap (“butcher”) and kasapin (“butcher”) and Romanian casap (“butcher”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kɐˈt͡sap]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

каца́п • (kacáp) m pers (genitive каца́па, nominative plural каца́пи, genitive plural каца́пів, feminine каца́пка, relational adjective каца́пський, diminutive каца́пчик)
* (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) katsap, a Russian person, Russian, Russki

#### Synonyms

* кацалап (kacalap)
* москаль (moskalʹ)

#### Derived terms

* каца́п'юга (kacápʺjuha)
* каца́пеня (kacápenja)
* каца́писько (kacápysʹko)
* каца́пище (kacápyšče)
* Каца́пія (Kacápija)
* каца́пка (kacápka)
* каца́пня (kacápnja)
* каца́пський (kacápsʹkyj)
* каца́пчик (kacápčyk)
* каца́пчина (kacápčyna)
* каца́пчук (kacápčuk)
* Каца́пщина (Kacápščyna), каца́пстан (kacápstan)
* кацапщити (kacapščyty), скаца́пщити (skacápščyty), покаца́пщити (pokacápščyty)
* кацапщитися (kacapščytysja), скаца́пщитися (skacápščytysja), покаца́пщитися (pokacápščytysja)

#### Descendants

* → English: katsap
* → Polish: kacap
* → Russian: каца́п (kacáp)

### See also

* закацапити (zakacapyty)
* хохол (xoxol)

### Further reading

* Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “каца́п”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
* Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “кацап”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
* Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “кацап”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
* Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “кацап”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
* Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982) “кацап”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 638