кацап

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

• (a Russian person): моска́ль (moskálʹ)

• кацаб (Western Ukraine)

From цап (cap, “billy goat”) with a prefix ка- (ka-). Likening a stereotypically bearded Russian man to a goat. Compare каца́р (kacár, “great czar”). A common folk etymology explains the word as “как-цап” (kak-cap, “like a billy goat”), deriving from Russian как (kak, “as”).

Another credible etymology is from Turkish kasap (“butcher”), from Arabic قَصَّاب‎ (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”). Compare Crimean Tatar къасап (qasap, “butcher”), Ukrainian закаца́пити (zakacápyty, “kill, slaughter”), Bulgarian касап (kasap, “butcher”) and касапин (kasapin, “butcher”), Serbo-Croatian kasap (“butcher”) Serbo-Croatian kasapin (“butcher”), Romanian casap (“butcher”).

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈt͡sɑp]

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

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

• кацалап
• москаль

• закацапити
• хохол

• кацап in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka
• Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1982–2012), “кацап”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kiev: Naukova Dumka
• Rudnycʼkyj, Jaroslav B. (1982), “кацап”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language (in Ukrainian), volume II, Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian Language Association, pages 638–639