bandit

See also: Bandit and bändit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), from Late Latin bannire (“to proclaim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪt/

Noun

bandit (plural bandits)

1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
2. An outlaw.
3. One who cheats others.
4. (military) An enemy aircraft.
5. (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

Synonyms

• (one who robs others): For semantic relationships of this sense, see thief in the Thesaurus.
• (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
• (one who cheats others): cheater

Derived terms

• shag bandit

Translations

one who robs others

• Albanian: bandit (sq) m
• Arabic: سَارِق‎‎ (ar) m (sāriq)
• Armenian: ավազակ (hy) (avazak)
• Azerbaijani: bandit, quldur
• Belarusian: банды́т m (bandýt), разбо́йнік m (razbójnik)
• Bulgarian: банди́т (bg) m (bandít), разбо́йник (bg) m (razbójnik)
• Burmese: ဓားပြ (my) (dha:pra.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 匪徒 (zh) (fěitú), 土匪 (zh) (tǔfěi), 強盜 (zh), 强盗 (zh) (qiángdào)

• Czech: bandita (cs) m
• Danish: bandit c
• Dutch: bandiet (nl) m
• Estonian: bandiit
• Finnish: rosvo (fi), bandiitti (fi)
• French: voleur (fr) m, bandit (fr) m
• Georgian: ბანდიტი (bandiṭi)
• German: Bandit (de) m
• Greek: ληστής (el) (listís)

  Ancient: λῃστής m (lēistḗs)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹדֵד‎‎ (he) m (shodéd)
• Hindi: डाकू (hi) m (ḍākū)
• Hungarian: bandita (hu)
• Icelandic: ræningi (is)
• Ido: bandito (io)
• Indonesian: begal (id), perampok (id), bandit (id)
• Italian: bandito (it) m, bandita (it) f
• Japanese: 山賊 (ja) (さんぞく, sanzoku), 強盗 (ja) (がんどう, gandō, ごうとう, gōtō)
• Kazakh: бандит (bandït), қарақшы (qaraqşı), тонаушы (tonawşı)
• Korean: 강도 (ko) (gangdo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چه‌ته‌‎‎ (ku) (çete)

• Kyrgyz: бандит (ky) (bandit), кески (keski)
• Lao: ໂຈນ (chōn)

• Latin: latrō m
• Latvian: bandīts m
• Lithuanian: banditas m
• Macedonian: разбојник m (razbojnik)
• Manx: roosteyr m
• Maori: pāhua, kaipāhua
• Marathi: डाकू m (ḍākū)
• Mongolian: дээрэмчин (mn) (deeremčin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: banditt m

• Persian: راهزن‎‎ (fa) (râhzan)
• Polish: bandyta (pl) m, rozbójnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ladrão (pt) f
• Romanian: bandit (ro) m
• Russian: банди́т (ru) m (bandít), разбо́йник (ru) m (razbójnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: разбојник m

  Roman: razbojnik (sh) m

• Slovak: bandita m
• Slovene: razbojnik m
• Spanish: bandido m
• Swahili: haramia (sw)
• Swedish: bandit (sv) c, bov (sv) c, rövare (sv) c
• Tajik: роҳзан (rohzan)
• Thai: โจร (th) (joon)
• Tibetan: ཇག་པ (jag pa)
• Turkmen: bandit (tk), galtaman
• Ukrainian: банди́т (uk) m (bandýt), розбі́йник m (rozbíjnyk)
• Uzbek: bandit (uz), bosmachi (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẻ cướp (vi), cường đạo (vi)
• Yiddish: באַנדיט‎‎ m (bandit)

an outlaw

• Arabic:

  Algerian Arabic: بُّاندي‎‎ m (ḅḅʷāndī)

  Moroccan Arabic: بُّاندي‎‎ m (ḅḅʷāndī)

  Tunisian Arabic: بُّاندي‎‎ m (ḅḅʷāndī)

• Finnish: lainsuojaton (fi), henkipatto (fi)
• Ido: bandito (io)

• Indonesian: bandit (id), penjahat (id)
• Italian: bandito (it) m, bandita (it) f
• Javanese: bajingan (jv)
• Portuguese: bandido (pt) m
• Swahili: haramia (sw)
• Swedish: bandit (sv) c

one who cheats others

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: فێڵباز‎‎ (ku) (fêllbaz)

• Portuguese: ladrão (pt) m, trapaceiro (pt) m

Verb

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
   • 1921, Munsey's Magazine (volume 74, page 38)

     First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.

   • 1937, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 160, page 7)

     As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.

Anagrams

• IT Band, IT band

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.di/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: bandits

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. bandit
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume 1, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter XXXV:

     « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »

     "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."

Derived terms

• banditisme

Further reading

• “bandit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bandiet.

Noun

bandit

1. bandit

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. (Jersey) bandit

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎndiːt/
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

Noun

bàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)

1. bandit

Declension

Declension of bandit

	singular	plural
nominative	bàndīt	banditi
genitive	bandíta	bandita
dative	banditu	banditima
accusative	bandita	bandite
vocative	bandite	banditi
locative	banditu	banditima
instrumental	banditom	banditima

References

• “bandit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2018