crab meaning in Sanskrit
कर्कट karkaṭa
UK/kɹæb/
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British/ˈkɹab/
crab in Sanskrit: कर्कट (karkaṭa). In English, crab means any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
Sanskrit words for crab
- crustacean
- कर्कट karkaṭa
English meaning of crab
- noun Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- noun The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- noun Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- noun A horseshoe crab.
crab in a sentence
- Despite its name, the hermit crab is not a true crab!
- Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.
- If I think one thing and speak another, / I will both crab Christ and our Ladie His mother.
Synonyms of crab
crab in other languages
- crab in Hindi
- crab in Tamil
- crab in Marathi
- crab in Urdu
- crab in Bengali
- crab in Telugu
- crab in Malayalam
- crab in Kannada
- crab in Punjabi
- crab in Gujarati
- crab in Odia
- crab in Sinhala
- crab in Assamese
- crab in Nepali
- crab in Pashto
- crab in Tagalog
- crab in Arabic
- crab in Malay
- crab in Indonesian
- crab in Thai
- crab in Vietnamese
- crab in Myanmar
Questions about crab in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of crab in Sanskrit?
- Crab in Sanskrit is कर्कट (karkaṭa).
- crab इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Crab: कर्कट (karkaṭa).
- What does crab mean in English?
- Crab means any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
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