Silbentrennung
 can·kerTürkische aussprache
 kängkırSynonyme
 water canker, 
noma, 
roup, 
frounce, 
bane, 
blight, 
blister, 
boil, 
cancer, 
corrosion, 
corruption, 
lesion, 
rot, 
scourge, 
smutchAussprache
 /ˈkaɴɢkər/ /ˈkæŋkɜr/
Etymologie
 [ 'ka[ng]-k&r ] (noun.) 13th century. Middle English canker, cancre, Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. From Latin cancer (“a cancer”); or if a native word, compare Greek excrescence on tree, gangrene. See cancer, and compare cognate chancre. Compare also Old French cancre, (Modern French chancere), from Latin cancer.