кацап

See Ukrainian каца́п (kacáp)

• IPA^(key): [kaˈt͡sap]

каца́п • (kacáp) m pers (genitive каца́па, nominative plural каца́пы, genitive plural каца́паў)

1. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) katsap, a Russian person, Russian, Russki

• кацала́п (kacaláp)
• маска́ль (maskálʹ)

• “кацап” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

Borrowed from Ukrainian каца́п (kacáp).

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈt͡sap]

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каца́п • (kacáp) m anim (genitive каца́па, nominative plural каца́пы, genitive plural каца́пов, feminine каца́пка)

1. (Ukraine) (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) katsap, a Russian person, Russian, Russki

   Synonym: моска́ль (moskálʹ)

• кацаб (kacab) (Western Ukraine)

From Turkish kasap (“butcher”), from Arabic قَصَّاب‎ (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”). Apparently came to wide use after massacre of Kazan in 1552. Compare Hebrew קצב‎ (“butcher”), Crimean Tatar къасап (“butcher”), Ukrainian закаца́пити (zakacápyty, “kill, slaughter”), Bulgarian касап (kasap, “butcher”) and касапин (kasapin, “butcher”), Serbo-Croatian kasap (“butcher”) and kasapin (“butcher”) and Romanian casap (“butcher”).

Another etymology is from цап (cap, “billy goat”) with a prefix ка- (ka-). Likening a stereotypically bearded Russian man to a goat. An alleged folk etymology explains the word as “как-цап” (kak-cap, “like a billy goat”), deriving from Russian как (kak, “as”), however there is no factual evidence supporting this theory.

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈt͡sap]

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каца́п • (kacáp) m pers (genitive каца́па, nominative plural каца́пи, genitive plural каца́пів, feminine каца́пка, related adjective каца́пський, diminutive каца́пчик)

1. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) katsap, a Russian person, Russian, Russki

• кацалап (kacalap)
• москаль (moskalʹ)

• закацапити (zakacapyty)
• хохол (xoxol)

• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “каца́п”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “кацап”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2022), “кацап”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 1–13 (а – покі́рно), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “кацап”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982), “кацап”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volume 2 (Д – Ь), issue 12–22, Ottawa: Ukr. Mohylo-Mazepian Acad. of Sci. & Ukr. Lang. Assoc., →LCCN, page 638