burglar

English

Etymology

Middle English, shortened from Middle English burgulator, from Medieval Latin (Anglo-Latin) burglātor, from Old French burgeor (“burglar”), from Medieval Latin burgātor (“burglar”), from burgāre (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgiją (“borough, watch-tower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high, heights”). The -l- may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːɡlə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝɡlɚ/, [ˈbɚɡlɚ]

Noun

burglar (plural burglars)

1. A thief who steals from premises.

   The burglar made off with a large diamond from the museum.

Related terms

• burglar alarm
• burglarize, burglarise
• burglary
• burglarous

• burglarously
• burgle
• cat burglar
• housebreaker

Translations

thief who steals from premises

• Bulgarian: крадец с взлом (kradec s vzlom)
• Catalan: lladre (ca) m, f, espanyaportes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 竊盜 (zh), 窃盗 (zh) (qièdào), 竊賊 (zh), 窃贼 (zh) (qièzéi)

• Czech: lupič (cs) m
• Dutch: inbreker (nl) m, inbreekster (nl) f
• Esperanto: domŝtelisto
• Finnish: murtovaras (fi)
• French: cambrioleur (fr) m, cambrioleuse (fr) f
• German: Einbrecher (de) m, Einbrecherin (de) f, Dieb (de) m, Diebin (de), Räuber (de) m, Räuberin (de) f
• Greek: διαρρήκτης (el) m, f (diarríktis)

  Ancient: τοιχώρυχος m (toikhṓrukhos)

• Hebrew: פּוֹרֵץ‎‎ m (poréts), פּוֹרֶצֶת‎‎ f (porétset)
• Hungarian: betörő (hu)
• Ido: ruptofurtisto, ruptofurtero, domofurtisto (io)
• Indonesian: maling (id), pencuri (id)
• Irish: buirgléir m

• Italian: scassinatore m, scassinatrice f
• Japanese: 強盗 (ja) (ごうとう, gōtō), 夜盗 (ja) (やとう, yatō)
• Javanese: maling (jv)
• Low German: Inbreker m, Inbrekerin f, Inbrekersch f, Inbrekersche f, Inbräker m, Inbräkerin f, Inbräkersch f, Inbräkersche f
• Luxembourgish: Abriecher m
• Malay: perompak
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innbruddstyv m, innbruddstjuv m, innbrottstjuv m, innbrottstyv m

  Nynorsk: innbrotstjuv m, innbrottstjuv m

• Polish: włamywacz (pl) m, włamywaczka f
• Portuguese: ladrão (pt) m
• Romanian: spărgător (ro) m
• Russian: взло́мщик (ru) m (vzlómščik), взло́мщица f (vzlómščica), дому́шник (ru) m (domúšnik), дому́шница (ru) f (domúšnica)
• Swedish: inbrottstjuv (sv) c
• Tuvan: оор (oor)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: (♂♀) nübreikan, (♂) hinübreikan, (♀) jinübreikan

Verb

burglar (third-person singular simple present burglars, present participle burglaring, simple past and past participle burglared)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To commit burglary; to burgle.

See also

• robber
• thief