criquet

Borrowed from English cricket.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kɾiˈkɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kɾiˈkət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾiˈket]

criquet m (uncountable)

1. cricket (game)

• “criquet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “criquet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “criquet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Inherited from Middle French criquet, from Old French criket, from Old French criquer (“to crack, creak”), of Germanic origin. Compare Dutch kriek, krekel (“cricket”), English creak.

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.kɛ/

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criquet m (plural criquets)

1. locust (insect)

• (Louisiana, Cajun French, Acadian) cheval du diable m

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

• criket

criquet oblique singular, m (oblique plural criquez or criquetz, nominative singular criquez or criquetz, nominative plural criquet)

1. locust (insect)

criquet m (plural criquets)

1. misspelling of críquet