# cricket
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.

#### Alternative forms

* crecket (dialectal and archaic)

#### Noun

cricket (plural crickets)
* An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
** (US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
* A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
* (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.

##### Derived terms

* ant cricket
* balm cricket
* balm-cricket
* bush cricket
* bush-cricket
* bushcricket
* cave cricket
* chirpy as a cricket
* cricket bird
* cricket flour
* cricket frog (Acris)
* cricketless
* cricketlike
* crickety
* dune cricket
* fen cricket
* field cricket
* holy cricket
* house cricket
* Italian tree cricket
* Jerusalem cricket
* jiminy cricket
* king cricket
* merry as a cricket
* mole cricket
* moon cricket
* Mormon cricket
* narrow-winged tree cricket
* Otomí tree cricket
* saddle-backed bush cricket
* sand cricket
* snowy tree-cricket
* spring field cricket
* tree-cricket
* true cricket

##### See also

* jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
* cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
* beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
* earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
* flies, dipterans (Diptera)
* webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
* mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
* ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
* true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
* hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
* butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
* mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
* mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
* scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
* megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
* neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
* damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
* orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
* stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
* stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
* barklice and booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
* snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
* fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
* strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
* thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
* caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
* zorapterans (Zoraptera)
* silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)

### Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).

#### Noun

cricket (uncountable)
* (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
* (chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
    Antonym: not cricket
** 1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 81:Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]
* A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).

##### Derived terms

* backyard cricket
* cricketainment
* cricketana
* cricket ball
* cricket bat
* cricket chair
* cricketeer
* cricketer
* cricket field
* cricket ground
* cricketly
* cricket pitch
* cricket score
* cricket whites
* crickety
* day/night cricket
* French cricket
* grade cricket
* Kanga cricket
* Kiwi cricket
* kwik cricket
* limited overs cricket
* one-day cricket
* pencil cricket
* premier cricket
* pub cricket
* single wicket cricket
* Test cricket

##### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: krieket
* → Albanian: kriket
* → Arabic: الكريكت (al krīkit)
* → Assamese: ক্ৰিকেট (kriket)
* → Burmese: ကရစ်ကက် (ka.rackak)
* → Catalan: criquet
* → Czech: kriket
* → Danish: kricket, cricket
* → Dutch: cricket
* → French: cricket
* → Galician: crícket
* → German: Cricket
* → Greek: κρίκετ (kríket)
* → Hebrew: קְרִיקֶט
* → Hindi: क्रिकेट (krikeṭ)
* → Hungarian: krikett
* → Icelandic: krikket
* → Irish: cruicéad
* → Italian: cricket
* → Japanese: クリケット (kuriketto)
* → Korean: 크리켓 (keuriket)
* → Malay: kriket
* → Pashto: کرکټ (krikiṭ)
* → Persian: کریکت (krekit)
* → Polish: krykiet
* → Portuguese: críquete
* → Russian: кри́кет (kríket) (see there for further descendants)
* → Scottish Gaelic: criogaid
* → Serbo-Croatian: krìket, крѝкет
* → Spanish: críquet, cricket
* → Swahili: kriketi
* → Swedish: cricket
* → Thai: คริกเก็ต (krík-gèt)
* → Urdu: کرکٹ (krikiṭ)
* → Welsh: criced

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

##### See also

* Appendix:Glossary of cricket

##### Further reading

* cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* cricket on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

#### Verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)
* (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
** 1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016
    Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
    Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).

#### Alternative forms

* crecket, cracket

#### Noun

cricket (plural crickets)
* (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
** 1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, pages 31 in the 6th edition 1757, 13–14 in the 1797 edition:Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
* A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ Chris Mason (2009 March 2) “Cricket 'was invented in Belgium'”, in BBC News‎
* ↑ “cricket”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000., where 10+ other quotes are given.

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kriket/ [kri.ket̪]
* Rhymes: -iket, -et

### Noun

cricket inan
* Alternative spelling of kriket

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “cricket”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkrɪ.kət/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cric‧ket

### Noun

cricket n (uncountable)
* cricket (sport)

#### Derived terms

* cricketen

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʁi.kɛt/

### Noun

cricket m (uncountable)
* cricket (sport)

### Further reading

* “cricket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cricket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkri.ket/
* Rhymes: -iket
* Hyphenation: crìc‧ket

### Noun

cricket m (uncountable)
* cricket (sport)

### Further reading

* cricket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Spanish
### Noun

cricket m (uncountable)
* Alternative spelling of críquet

### Further reading

* “cricket”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* kricket (less common)

### Etymology

Borrowed from English cricket.

### Noun

cricket c (uncountable)
* cricket (sport)

#### Derived terms

* cricketboll
* cricketlag
* cricketmatch
* cricketplan