bandit

See also: Bandit and bändit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪt/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)

1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:

     Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy?

2. An outlaw.
3. One who cheats others.
4. (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
5. (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

Synonyms

• (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
• (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
• (one who cheats others): cheater

Derived terms

• arse bandit
• ass bandit
• back-door bandit
• bail bandit
• banditism
• banditry
• Beltway bandit
• blue light bandit
• booty bandit
• botty bandit
• communist bandit
• dumpster bandit
• garbage bandit
• gas meter bandit
• make out like a bandit
• multi-armed bandit
• one-arm bandit
• one-armed bandit
• pussy bandit
• shag-bandit
• shag bandit
• squeegee bandit
• time bandit
• trash bandit

Translations

one who robs others

• Albanian: bandit (sq) m
• Arabic: سَارِق (ar) m (sāriq), سَارِقَة f (sāriqa)
• Armenian: ավազակ (hy) (avazak)
• Azerbaijani: bandit, quldur
• Belarusian: банды́т m (bandýt), банды́тка f (bandýtka), разбо́йнік m (razbójnik), разбо́йніца f (razbójnica)
• Bulgarian: банди́т (bg) m (bandít), банди́тка f (bandítka), разбо́йник (bg) m (razbójnik), разбо́йничка f (razbójnička), разбо́йница f (razbójnica)
• Burmese: ဓားပြ (my) (dha:pra.)
• Cherokee: ᏗᏓᎾᏒᎲᏍᎩ (didanasvhvsgi)
• Chinese:

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

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

  Ancient: λῃστής m (lēistḗs)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹדֵד (he) m (shodéd)
• Hindi: डाकू (hi) m (ḍākū), राहज़न m (rāhzan)
• Hungarian: bandita (hu)
• Icelandic: ræningi (is)
• Ido: bandito (io)
• Indonesian: begal (id), perampok (id), bandit (id)
• Irish: tóraí m
• 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)
• Kabuverdianu: bandidu, bandide
• Kazakh: бандит (bandit), қарақшы (qaraqşy), тонаушы (tonauşy)
• Khiamniungan Naga: ā-āphīehói
• Korean: 도적(盜賊) (ko) (dojeok), 비적(匪賊) (ko) (bijeok)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەتە (çete)

  Northern Kurdish: rêbir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бандит (ky) (bandit), кески (keski)
• Lao: ໂຈນ (chōn)
• Latin: latrō (la) m
• Latvian: bandīts m
• Lithuanian: banditas m
• Macedonian: разбојник m (razbojnik), разбојничка f (razbojnička), арамија m (aramija)
• Malay: penyamun, berandal, perompak
• Manx: roosteyr m
• Maori: pāhua, kaipāhua
• Marathi: डाकू m (ḍākū)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дээрэмчин (mn) (deeremčin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: banditt m

• Ottoman Turkish: حیدود (haydud), هایطه (hayta)
• Pashto: راهزن m (rāhzan), غدو m (ǧado), ډاکو (ps) m (ḍāku)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: راهْزَن (râhzan), سارِق (sâreġ)

• Plautdietsch: Baundiet m
• Polish: bandyta (pl) m, bandytka (pl) f, rozbójnik (pl) m, rozbójniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ladrão (pt) f
• Romanian: bandit (ro) m, haramin (ro) m
• Russian: банди́т (ru) m (bandít), банди́тка (ru) f (bandítka), разбо́йник (ru) m (razbójnik), разбо́йница (ru) f (razbójnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́збо̄јнӣк m, ра́збојница f

  Roman: rázbōjnīk (sh) m, rázbojnica (sh) f

• Slovak: bandita m, banditka f
• Slovene: razbojnik m, razbojnica f
• Spanish: bandido (es) m, bandida (es) f
• Swahili: haramia (sw)
• Swedish: bandit (sv) c, bov (sv) c, rövare (sv) c, rånare (sv)
• Tajik: роҳзан (rohzan)
• Thai: โจร (th) (joon)
• Tibetan: ཇག་པ (jag pa)
• Turkish: haydut (tr) sg
• Turkmen: bandit (tk), galtaman, garakçy
• Ukrainian: банди́т (uk) m (bandýt), банди́тка (uk) f (bandýtka), розбі́йник m (rozbíjnyk), розбі́йниця f (rozbíjnycja)
• Urdu: ڈاکو m (ḍāko), راہْزَن m (rāhzan)
• Uyghur: باندىت (bandit), قاراقچى (qaraqchi)
• Uzbek: bandit (uz), bosmachi (uz), qaroqchi (uz), bosqinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẻ cướp, cường đạo (vi)
• Yiddish: באַנדיט m (bandit)

an outlaw

• Arabic:

  Algerian Arabic: ^{(please verify)} باندي m (bāndi)

  Moroccan Arabic: باندي m (bāndi)

  Tunisian Arabic: ^{(please verify)} باندي m (bāndi)

• Catalan: bandit (ca) m, bandoler (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏗᏓᎾᏒᎲᏍᎩ (didanasvhvsgi)
• Finnish: lainsuojaton (fi), henkipatto (fi)
• Ido: bandito (io)
• Indonesian: bandit (id), penjahat (id)
• Irish: tóraí m
• Italian: bandito (it) m, bandita (it) f
• Javanese: bajingan (jv)
• Kabuverdianu: bandidu, bandide
• Latin: latro (la) m
• Portuguese: bandido (pt) m
• Spanish: bandido (es) m
• Swahili: haramia (sw)
• Swedish: bandit (sv) c

one who cheats others

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فێڵباز (fêllbaz)

• Portuguese: ladrão (pt) m, trapaceiro (pt) m
• Swedish: bedragare (sv)

Verb

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

1. (ambitransitive) 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

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		бандит
Abjad		باندیت

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian банди́т (bandít), ultimately from Italian bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɑnˈdit]
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

Noun

bandit (definite accusative banditi, plural banditlər)

1. bandit, outlaw

   Synonym: soyğunçu

Declension

Declension of bandit

	singular	plural
nominative	bandit	banditlər
definite accusative	banditi	banditləri
dative	banditə	banditlərə
locative	banditdə	banditlərdə
ablative	banditdən	banditlərdən
definite genitive	banditin	banditlərin

Possessive forms of bandit

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	banditim	banditlərim
sənin (“your”)	banditin	banditlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	banditi	banditləri
bizim (“our”)	banditimiz	banditlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	banditiniz	banditləriniz
onların (“their”)	banditi or banditləri	banditləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	banditimi	banditlərimi
sənin (“your”)	banditini	banditlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	banditini	banditlərini
bizim (“our”)	banditimizi	banditlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	banditinizi	banditlərinizi
onların (“their”)	banditini or banditlərini	banditlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	banditimə	banditlərimə
sənin (“your”)	banditinə	banditlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	banditinə	banditlərinə
bizim (“our”)	banditimizə	banditlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	banditinizə	banditlərinizə
onların (“their”)	banditinə or banditlərinə	banditlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	banditimdə	banditlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	banditində	banditlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	banditində	banditlərində
bizim (“our”)	banditimizdə	banditlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	banditinizdə	banditlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	banditində or banditlərində	banditlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	banditimdən	banditlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	banditindən	banditlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	banditindən	banditlərindən
bizim (“our”)	banditimizdən	banditlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	banditinizdən	banditlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	banditindən or banditlərindən	banditlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	banditimin	banditlərimin
sənin (“your”)	banditinin	banditlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	banditinin	banditlərinin
bizim (“our”)	banditimizin	banditlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	banditinizin	banditlərinizin
onların (“their”)	banditinin or banditlərinin	banditlərinin

Further reading

• “bandit” in Obastan.com.

Catalan

Etymology

From bandir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bənˈdit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [banˈdit]

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits, feminine bandida)

1. outlaw

Related terms

• bàndol

Further reading

• “bandit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.di/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: bandits

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. bandit

   des procédés de bandit ― dishonest practices

   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     « 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
• bandit de grand chemin
• bandit manchot

Descendants

• → German: Bandit
  • → Bulgarian: банди́т (bandít)
  • → Polish: bandyta
• → Norman: bandit
• → Romanian: bandit

Further reading

• “bandit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bandiet, from Middle French bandit, from Italian bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbandɪt̚]
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

Noun

bandit (plural bandit-bandit)

1. bandit

   Synonyms: penjahat, pencuri

Derived terms

• kebanditan
• membandit

Further reading

• “bandit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. (Jersey) bandit

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

Noun

bandit m (plural bandiți)

1. bandit

Declension

Declension of bandit

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bandit	banditul		bandiți	bandiții
genitive-dative	bandit	banditului		bandiți	bandiților
vocative	banditule			bandiților

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Noun

bandit c

1. (somewhat dated) a career criminal living outside society; a robber, a bandit

Declension

Declension of bandit

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bandit	bandits
	definite	banditen	banditens
plural	indefinite	banditer	banditers
	definite	banditerna	banditernas

Derived terms

• enarmad bandit

References

• bandit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bandit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bandit in Svensk ordbok (SO)