burglar

English

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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 *bhergh2- (“high, heights”). The -l- may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”).

Noun

burglar (plural burglars)

1. A thief who steals from premises.

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

Related terms

• burglarize
• burglary
• burgle
• burglar alarm
• cat burglar

See also

• robber
• thief

Translations

thief who steals from premises

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

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

• Czech: lupič m
• Dutch: inbreker (nl) m, inbreekster 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:

  Ancient: τοιχώρυχος m (toikhōrukhos)

• Hebrew: פּוֹרֵץ m (poréts), פּוֹרֶצֶת f (porétset)
• Hungarian: betörő (hu)

• Ido: ruptofurtisto, ruptofurtero, domofurtisto (io)
• Irish: buirgléir m
• Italian: scassinatore m, scassinatrice f
• Japanese: 強盗 (ja) (ごうとう, gōtō), 夜盗 (ja) (やとう, yatō)
• Low German: Inbreker m, Inbrekerin f, Inbrekersch f, Inbrekersche f, Inbräker m, Inbräkerin f, Inbräkersch f, Inbräkersche f
• Luxembourgish: Abriecher m
• Polish: włamywacz (pl) m, włamywaczka f
• Portuguese: ladrão (pt) m
• Romanian: spărgător (ro) m
• Russian: взломщик (ru) m (vzlómščik), взломщица f (vzlómščica), домушник (ru) m (domúšnik), домушница f (domúšnica)
• Swedish: inbrottstjuv c
• Tuvan: оор (oor)
• Volapük: (♂♀) nübreikan, (♂) hinübreikan, (♀) jinübreikan