escarabat

• escaravat
• escarbat (dialectal)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *scarafaius, from Latin scarabaeus. The final -t may represent back-formation from a plural form *escaravaigs pronounced with a final -ts. Doublet of escarabeu, a learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kə.ɾəˈβat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.kə.ɾəˈbat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.ka.ɾaˈbat]

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• Rhymes: -at

escarabat m (plural escarabats)

1. beetle
2. ellipsis of escarabat de cuina (“cockroach”)
3. (carpentry) bench hook

• “escarabat”, 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
• “escarabat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Compare Catalan escarabat.

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escarabat m (plural escarabats)

1. beetle