karavide

Nephrops norvegicus
#nm_0564📍 Turkey
Language
Turkish
Transliteration
karavide
IPA
/kaɾaviˈde/

From Greek καραβίδα karavída (crayfish, small lobster) ↳ From Ancient Greek καραβίς karabís (crayfish), a diminutive of κάραβος kárabos (lobster, horned beetle) Taken via Pontic Greek and a doublet of kerevit, the same Greek word; the two settled on different animals, karavide on the Norway lobster and kerevit on the freshwater crayfish.

Norway lobster, a slender orange-pink lobster about 20 cm long with long narrow claws. Burrows in muddy seabed sediment at depths of 20-800 m. Found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Borrowed from: καραβίδα