crime

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin crimen from cernere.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹaɪm/, X-SAMPA: /kr\aIm/

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable; plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.

   Crime doesn’t pay.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

Derived terms

Terms derived from "crime"

crime against humanity crime against nature crimebuster crime index crime mapping crime rate

criminal criminal law criminal record criminology decriminalization international crime

organised crime / organized crime sexual crime war crime white collar crime

Translations

act violating the law

• Afrikaans: misdryf (af)
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• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جريمة (ar) (jarīma) f
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հանցանք (hy) (hanc’ank’) 
• Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: delitu (ast) m
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: злачынства (be) (zlačýnstva) n , злачын (be) (zlačýn) m 
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: престъпление (bg) (prestǎplénie) n 
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: crim (ca) m, delicte (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏅᏨ (chr) (asganvtsv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罪 (cmn) (zuì), 罪行 (cmn) (zuìxíng), 刑事犯罪 (cmn) (xíngshì fànzuì), 犯罪 (cmn) (fànzuì)

• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: zločin (cs) m, trestný čin (cs) m
• Danish: forbrydelse (da) c
• Dutch: misdaad (nl) f
• Esperanto: krimo (eo)
• Estonian: kuritegu (et)
• Faroese: brotsgerð (fo) f
• Finnish: rikos (fi)
• French: crime (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: delito (gl) m, malfeito (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Verbrechen (de) n
• Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: kalaima
• Hebrew: פשע (he) (pesha) m
• Hindi: अपराध (hi) (aprādh) m
• Hungarian: bűntény (hu), bűntett (hu)
• Icelandic: glæpur (is) m
• Ido: krimino (io)
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• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
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• Irish: coir (ga) f, cion (ga) m
• Italian: crimine (it) m, delitto (it) m
• Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi), 犯行 (ja) (はんこう, hankō)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: қылмыс (kk) (qılmıs) 
• Khmer: បទឧក្រិដ្ឋ (km) (bɑt okkrǝt)
• Korean: 범죄 (ko) (beomjoe) (犯罪 (ko))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: scelus (la) n, facinus (la) n, maleficium (la) n

• Latvian: noziegšanās (lv), noziegums (lv) m
• Lithuanian: nusikaltimas (lt) m, nusižengimas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Verbriechen (lb)
• Macedonian: злосторство (mk) (zlóstorstvo) n, злодело (mk) (zlódelo) n, недело (mk) (nédelo) m
• Malay: jenayah (ms)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: loght (gv) m
• Maori: hara (mi)
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: delicte (oc) m
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: جرم (fa) (jorm)
• Polish: przestępstwo (pl) n, zbrodnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: crime (pt) m
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• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romansch: crim (rm) m
• Russian: преступление (ru) (prestuplénije) n , злодеяние (ru) (zlodejánije) n , злодейство (ru) (zlodéjstvo) n 
• Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
• Scots: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: eucoir (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зло̀чин (sh) m

  Roman: zlòčin (sh) m

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: zločin (sk) m
• Slovene: zločin (sl) m
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: delito (es) m
• Swedish: brott (sv) n
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: குற்றம் (ta) (kutram)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: อาชญากรรม (th) (àatyaagam)
• Turkish: suç (tr)
• Turkmen: jenaýat (tk)
• Tuvan: кем-херек (kem-kherek)
• Ukrainian: злочин (uk) (zlóčyn) m 
• Urdu: اپرادھ (ur) (aprādh) m
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• Vietnamese: tội ác (vi), tội phạm (vi) (罪犯 (vi))
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• West Frisian: misdied (fy)
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• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

practice or habit of committing crimes

• Arabic: جريمة (ar) (jariima) f
• Catalan: crim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罪行 (cmn) (zuìxíng)

• Czech: zločinnost (cs) f
• Danish: kriminalitet (da) c
• Dutch: misdaad (nl) f
• Esperanto: krimado (eo)
• Estonian: kuritegevus (et)
• Finnish: rikollisuus (fi), rikos (fi)
• French: crime (fr) m
• German: Verbrechen (de) n
• Greek: εγκληματικότητα (el) f (egklimatikótita)
• Hebrew: פשע (he) (pesha) m
• Hungarian: bűnözés (hu)
• Italian: criminalità (it) f

• Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi)
• Korean: 범죄 (ko) (beomjoe) (犯罪 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: جه‌ریمه‌ (ku)

• Macedonian: злосторство (mk) (zlóstorstvo) n
• Portuguese: crime (pt) m
• Russian: преступление (ru) (prestuplénije) n , преступность (ru) (prestúpnost') n , криминал (ru) (kriminál) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: eucoireachd (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зло̀чин (sh) m

  Roman: zlòčin (sh) m

• Slovene: zločin (sl) m
• Spanish: delincuencia (es) f
• Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c

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• French: crime (fr) (1, 2)
• Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima) [ˈe̞(ŋ)ɡliˌma] (2), αδίκημα (el) n (adíkima) [aˈðiciˌma], απάτη (el) f (apáti) [aˈpati], κακούργημα (el) n (kakoúrgima) [kaˈkurʝiˌma] (1, 2), παρανομία (el) f (paranomía) [paˌrano̞ˈmiˌa] (1)
• Hebrew: פשע m
• Indonesian: kejahatan (id)
• Lithuanian: nusikaltimas (lt) m
• Malayalam: കുറ്റം, കുറ്റകൃത്യം
• Manchu: weile
• Persian: بزه (bezeh), جرم (jorm)
• Romanian: infracțiune f, delict n
• Telugu: నేరము (te) (neramu) (1), నేరప్రవృత్తి (te) (nerapravruthi) (2)
• Turkish: suç [çu]

See also

• offence
• sin

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French

Etymology

From Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /kʁim/, X-SAMPA: /kRim/

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   Le crime ne paie pas.

2. murder, homicide

Related terms

criminalité criminel

criminogène criminologie

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾimɨ/

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.

   The thief committed a terrible crime.