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 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.

Another etymology conclusion is insufficiently substantiated, supposedly came to wide use after massacre of Kazan in 1552: from Turkish kasap (“butcher”), from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”). 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”).

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈt͡sap]

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

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, 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 (2010–2023), “кацап”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), 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, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 638