English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old English þēof, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.
Pronunciation [edit]
thief (plural thieves)
- One who has carried out a theft.
- (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)
Translations [edit]
one who carries out theft
- Afrikaans: dief (af)
- Albanian: vjedhës (sq) m
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: لص (ar) (liṣṣ) m, سارق (ar) (sāriq) m
- Egyptian Arabic: حرامي (ḥaraami) m
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: գող (hy) (goġ)
- Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: oğru (az)
- Baluchi: دز
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: lapur (eu), ebasle (eu)
- Belarusian: злодзей (be) (zlódzej) m
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: крадец (bg) (krádec) m
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: lladre (ca) m
- Chamicuro: ma'koleti
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 賊 (cmn), 贼 (cmn) (zéi), 盜賊 (cmn), 盗贼 (cmn) (dàozéi), 小偷 (cmn) (xiǎotōu), 宵小 (cmn) (xiāoxiǎo), 竊賊 (cmn), 窃贼 (cmn) (qièzéi)
- Corsican: latru (co) m
- Czech: zloděj (cs) m
- Danish: tyv (da) c, (male) tyveknægt (da)
- Dutch: dief (nl) m, dievegge (nl) f
- Esperanto: ŝtelisto (eo)
- Estonian: varas (et)
- Ewe: fiafi n, fiafitɔ n
- Faroese: tjóvur (fo) m
- Finnish: varas (fi), voro (fi), rosvoja (fi) pl
- French: voleur (fr) m, voleuse (fr) f
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: ladrón (gl) m
- Georgian: ქურდი (ka) (kʼurdi)
- German: Dieb (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) m, 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (þiufs) m
- Greek: κλέφτης (el) (kléftis) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: גנב (he) (ganáv) m
- Hindi: चोर (hi) (cor) m
- Hungarian: tolvaj (hu)
- Icelandic: þjófur (is)
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: gadaí (ga) m
- Italian: ladro (it) m, ladra (it) f
- Japanese: 泥棒 (ja) (どろぼう, dorobō), 盗賊 (ja) (とうぞく, tōzoku), 窃盗 (ja) (せっとう, settō)
- Jèrriais: voleux m
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: ұры (kk) (urı)
- Khmer: ចោរ (km) (jao)
- Korean: 도둑 (ko) (doduk)
- Kurdish: diz (ku), دز (ku)
- Kyrgyz: ууру (ky) (uuru)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: fur (la) m and f, latro (la) m
- Latvian: zaglis (lv) m
- Lithuanian: vagis (lt) m
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- Lower Sorbian: złoźej m, paduch m
- Luxembourgish: Déif (lb) m
- Macedonian: крадец (mk) (krádec) m, арамија (mk) (aramija) m poetic
- Malay: pencuri (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: aniʼįįhii
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tyv (no) m
- Nynorsk: tjuv (nn) m
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: raubaire (oc) m, raubaira (oc) f
- Old Norse: þjófr m
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: دزد (fa) (dozd)
- Polish: złodziej (pl) m, złodziejka (pl) f
- Portuguese: ladrão (pt) m, ladra (pt) f
- Quechua: suwa (qu)
- Rohingya: sur
- Romanian: hoț (ro)
- Russian: вор (ru) (vor) m, воровка (ru) (voróvka) f
- Scottish Gaelic: mèirleach (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лопов (sh) m, тат (sh) m, крадљивац (sh) m
- Roman: lopov (sh) m, tat (sh) m, kradljivac (sh) m
- Sicilian: latru (scn) m, latruni (scn) m, larruni (scn) m
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: zlodej (sk) m
- Slovene: tat (sl) m
- Spanish: ladrón (es) m
- Swahili: mwizi (sw)
- Swedish: tjuv (sv) c
- Tagalog: magnanakaw (tl)
- Tajik: please add this translation if you can
- Talysh:
- Asalemi: دزد (dəzd)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Taos: tràmpi’ína
- Tatar: карак (tt) (qaraq)
- Telugu: దొంగ (te) (doṅga)
- Thai: ขโมย (th) (khamoi)
- Turkish: hırsız (tr)
- Tuvan: оор (oor)
- Ukrainian: злодій (uk) (zlódij) m
- Upper Sorbian: paduch (hsb) m
- Urdu: چور (ur) (ćor) m
- Vietnamese: kẻ trộm (vi), kẻ cắp (vi)
- Vilamovian: dīb
- Volapük: (male or female) tifan (vo), (male) hitifan (vo), (female) jitifan (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: lleidr (cy) m
- Yucatec Maya: ookol
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