cricket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: 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, 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.
Inflected forms:
form: crickets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crecket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
humorous
in-plural
slang
gloss: A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
pos: noun
gloss: An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: ant cricket
balm cricket
balm-cricket
bushcricket
bush-cricket
bush cricket
cave cricket
chirpy as a cricket
cricket bird
cricket flour
cricket frog
cricketless
cricketlike
cricket thief spider
crotch crickets
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
tree cricket)
true cricket
crickety
Translations:
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ǀɢā̰hm ǀō̰hle
lang: Afrikaans
word: kriek
lang: Albanian
word: bulkth
lang: Amharic
word: ዋዝንቢት
roman: waznəbit
lang: Amharic
word: ፌንጣ
roman: fenṭa
lang: Arabic
word: جُدْجُد
roman: judjud
lang: Arabic
word: صُرْصُر
roman: ṣurṣur
lang: Arabic
word: صُرْصُور
roman: ṣurṣūr
lang: Arabic
word: صرصور
roman: ṣarṣūr
lang: Armenian
word: ճռիկ
roman: čṙik
lang: Assamese
word: উঁইচিৰিঙা
roman: ũisiriṅa
lang: Asturian
word: grillu
lang: Asturian
word: llorín
lang: Asturian
word: pedru
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sisəy
lang: Banjarese
word: jengkerék
lang: Basque
word: kilker
lang: Belarusian
word: цвырку́н
roman: cvyrkún
lang: Bulgarian
word: щуре́ц
roman: šturéc
lang: Burmese
word: ပုရစ်
roman: pu.rac
lang: Catalan
word: grill
lang: Chamicuro
word: c̈ho'kota
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏔᎳᏚ
roman: taladu
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 蟋蟀
roman: sik¹ seot¹
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 蟋蟀
roman: sék-sáuk
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 土狗仔
roman: tuˋ gieuˋ eˋ
lang: Chinese
word: 杜猴
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蟋蟀
roman: xīshuài
lang: Chittagonian
word: জিনি পুঁক
roman: zini fuñk
lang: Choctaw
word: shʋlontʋki
lang: Comanche
word: tuaahtaki
lang: Cornish
word: gryll
lang: Czech
word: cvrček
lang: Danish
word: fårekylling
lang: Dutch
word: krekel
lang: Emilian
word: gril
lang: Esperanto
word: grilo
lang: Estonian
word: kilk
lang: Faroese
word: veggjasmiður
lang: Faroese
word: veggjasmyril
lang: Finnish
word: sirkka
lang: French
word: grillon
lang: French
word: cri-cri
lang: French
word: criquet
lang: Galician
word: grilo
lang: Galician
word: ralo
lang: Galician
word: rilo
lang: Galician
word: corta
lang: Georgian
word: ჭრიჭინა
roman: č̣rič̣ina
lang: German
word: Grille
lang: Greek
word: γρύλος
roman: grýlos
lang: Greek
word: τριζόνι
roman: trizóni
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γρύλλος
roman: grúllos
lang: Gujarati
word: ક્રિકેટ
roman: krikeṭ
lang: Hebrew
word: צְרָצַר m צַרְצוּר
roman: tsratsár
lang: Hindi
word: झींगुर
roman: jhīṅgur
lang: Hindi
word: झीँगुर
roman: jhī̃gur
lang: Hungarian
word: tücsök
lang: Icelandic
word: krybba
lang: Ido
word: grilio
lang: Irish
word: criogar
lang: Irish
word: píobaire teallaigh
lang: Irish
word: píobaire gríosaí
lang: Irish
word: urchuil
lang: Italian
word: grillo
lang: Japanese
word: コオロギ
roman: kōrogi
lang: Japanese
word: 蟋蟀
roman: kōrogi
lang: Javanese
word: jangkrik
lang: Kapampangan
word: lipaktung
lang: Kapampangan
word: kamaru
lang: Karachay-Balkar
word: сенгирчке
roman: señirçke
lang: S'gaw Karen
word: သကံၤ
roman: tha keē
lang: Kazakh
word: қара шегіртке
roman: qara şegırtke
lang: Khmer
word: ចង្រិត
roman: cɑngrət
lang: Kongo
word: nzenze
lang: Korean
word: 귀뚜라미
roman: gwitturami
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کولە
roman: kule
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кара чегиртке
roman: kara cegirtke
lang: Lao
word: ຈີ່ລໍ່
roman: chī lǭ
lang: Latin
word: gryllus
lang: Latvian
word: circenis
lang: Lingala
word: likélélé
lang: Lithuanian
word: svirplys
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Grill
lang: Macedonian
word: штурец
roman: šturec
lang: Malagasy
word: valala
lang: Malagasy
word: ampipanga
lang: Malayalam
word: ചീവീട്
roman: cīvīṭŭ
lang: Malayalam
word: മണ്ണട്ട
roman: maṇṇaṭṭa
lang: Maltese
word: grillu
lang: Marathi
word: रात्रकिडा
roman: rātrakiḍā
lang: Mi'kmaq
word: pugto'guome'j
lang: Nahuatl
word: chapōlin
lang: Navajo
word: nahakʼízii
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: siriss
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: siriss
lang: Occitan
word: grilh
lang: Occitan
word: grelh
lang: Persian
word: جیرجیرک
roman: jirjirak
lang: Polish
word: świerszcz
lang: Portuguese
word: grilo
lang: Punjabi
word: ਝੀਂਗਰ
roman: jhīṅgar
lang: Quechua
word: ch'illik'utu
lang: Quechua
word: sirp'i
lang: Romanian
word: greier
lang: Russian
word: сверчо́к
roman: sverčók
lang: Samogitian
word: svirplīs
lang: Sanskrit
word: फालका
roman: phālakā
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: greollan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: цвр́чак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зри́кавац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cvŕčak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zríkavac
lang: Sicilian
word: agriḍḍu
lang: Slovak
word: svrček
lang: Slovene
word: črȋčək
lang: Slovene
word: cvȓčək
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: šwjerc
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: šwjerč
lang: Southern Altai
word: сыгырчык
roman: sïgïrčïk
lang: Spanish
word: grillo
lang: Sundanese
word: jangkrik
lang: Swedish
word: syrsa
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠎꠤꠘꠤ ꠙꠥꠇ
roman: zini fuk
lang: Tagalog
word: kerwe
lang: Tagalog
word: kuliglig-lupa
lang: Tajik
word: чирчирак
roman: čirčirak
lang: Tarifit
word: tmurɣi
lang: Telugu
word: యిలకోడి
roman: yilakōḍi
lang: Telugu
word: కీచురాయి
roman: kīcurāyi
lang: Thai
word: จิ้งหรีด
roman: jîng-rìit
lang: Tigrinya
word: ዕንጭራር
roman: ʿənč̣ərar
lang: Turkish
word: cırcır böceği
lang: Ukrainian
word: цвірку́н
roman: cvirkún
lang: Urdu
word: جھینگر
roman: jhīṅgur
lang: Uzbek
word: qora chigirtka
lang: Vietnamese
word: dế
lang: Vilamovian
word: gryłł
lang: Volapük
word: krik
lang: Walloon
word: crikion
lang: Walloon
word: tchantrê
lang: Waray-Waray
word: gangis
lang: Welsh
word: criciedyn
lang: Welsh
word: cricsyn
lang: Yiddish
word: גריל
roman: gril
lang: Zhuang
word: daekdaeq