From Ukrainian каца́п. Either from Ukrainian цап ("billy goat") with a prefix ка-, thus invoking an image of a stereotypical Russian man with a beard, or from Turkish kasap, from Arabic قَصَّاب, meaning "butcher", "slaughterer".
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