Cockroach
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Etymology
- Spanish: cucaracha, wood louse.
Noun
- a black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea. Cockroaches are common kitchen pests and are often called simply "roaches".
Scientific name
- Gromphadorrhina portentosa
Translations
- Bosnian: žohar m
- Bulgarian: хлебарка f
- Catalan: escarabat m
- CJK Characters: 甴 (Cantonese)
- Chinese: 蟑螂 (zhang1 lang2)
- Dutch: kakkerlak m, sissende kakkerlak m
- Finnish: torakka (1)
- French: cafard m, blatte f, blatte sifflante f
- German: Schabe f, Kakerlake m
- Hebrew: צוק m
- Indonesian: kecoak
- Interlingua: blatta
- Japanese: ゴキブリ (gokiburi)
- Korean: 바퀴벌레 (bakwibeolre)
- Lithuanian: tarakonas m
- Mongolian: жоом (joom)
- Polish: karaluch m
- Portuguese: barata f
- Romanian: gândac m
- Russian: таракан m (tarakan)
- Spanish: cucaracha m
- Swedish: kackerlacka
- Turkish: hamam böceği
- Urdu: جهنگر
Further reading
- Wikipedia article on cockroaches.
