Where does “karabin” come from?

karabin (Polish) comes from Spanish carabina, from French carabine, from French carabin, from French escarrabin, from Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus, from Ancient Greek κάραβος — a kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a...

karabin (Polish): rifle

Definitions

  1. rifle

Ancestry of “karabin”, step by step

karabin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish carabina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcarabinacarbine; rifle; chaperone
2Frenchcarabinerifle; mistress of a cavalry soldier
3Frenchcarabincarabineer; medical student
4Frenchescarrabingrave digger
5Middle Frenchscarabéebeetle
6LatinscarabaeusA scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient...
7Ancient Greekκάραβοςa kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a...

via Dutch karabijn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchkarabijncarbine short-barrelled rifle

Words derived from “karabin

Every word from Ancient Greek κάραβοςEvery word from Latin scarabaeusEvery word from Middle French scarabée