crime

English

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪm/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
   • 1687 (date written)​, Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto VI, page 376:

     No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.

3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:

     the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency

5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

   Crime doesn’t pay.

Hyponyms

• crime against humanity
• crime against nature
• crime of passion
• criminal act
• felony
• hate crime
• high crime
• international crime
• misdemeanor, misdemeanour
• organised crime, organized crime
• petty crime
• regulatory offence
• sexual offence
• summary crime
• war crime
• white collar crime

 

Derived terms

• capital crime
• consensual crime
• crime buster
• crimebuster
• crime-buster
• crime car
• crime doesn't pay
• crime-fighter
• crime fighter
• crime-free, crimefree
• crime index
• crime lord
• crime mapping
• crime passionel
• crime rate
• crime-ridden, crimeridden
• crime scene
• crime science
• crime scientist
• crimestopper
• crime wave
• criminal
• criminal law
• criminally
• criminal record
• criminological
• criminologically
• criminologist
• criminology
• decriminalisation, decriminalization
• decriminalise, decriminalize
• e-crime
• enviro-crime
• hate-crime
• he who said the rhyme did the crime
• knife crime
• no-crime
• no crime
• noncriminal
• organizational crime
• partner in crime
• perfect crime
• pre-crime
• recriminalisation, recriminalization
• recriminalise, recriminalize
• stranger crime
• street crime
• tough on crime
• true crime
• victimless crime
• white-collar crime
• youth crime

 

Collocations

Collocations

• organized crime
• brutal crime
• terrible crime
• horrible crime
• heinous crime
• horrendous crime
• hideous crime
• financial crime
• sexual crime
• international crime

Translations

specific act committed in violation of the law

• Afrikaans: misdryf, misdaad (af)
• Albanian: krim (sq) m
• Amharic: ወንጀል (wänǧäl)
• Arabic: جَرِيمَة‎ (ar) f (jarīma), جِنَايَة‎ (ar) f (jināya)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հանցանք (hy) (hancʿankʿ), հանցագործություն (hy) (hancʿagorcutʿyun)
• Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: অপৰাধ (oporadh)
• Asturian: delitu m
• Azerbaijani: cinayət (az)
• Bashkir: енәйәт (yenäyät)
• Basque: delitua
• Belarusian: злачы́нства n (zlačýnstva), злачы́н m (zlačýn)
• Bengali: অপরাধ (bn) (oporadh)
• Breton: torfed (br) m
• Bulgarian: престъпле́ние (bg) n (prestǎplénie)
• Burmese: ပြစ်မှု (my) (prachmu.)
• Catalan: crim (ca) m, delicte (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏅᏨ (asganvtsv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罪 (zh) (zuì), 罪行 (zh) (zuìxíng), 刑事犯罪 (xíngshì fànzuì), 犯罪 (zh) (fànzuì)

• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: zločin (cs) m, trestný čin (cs) m
• Danish: forbrydelse (da) c
• Dutch: misdaad (nl) f
• Esperanto: krimo
• Estonian: kuritegu
• Faroese: brotsgerð f
• Finnish: rikos (fi)
• French: délit (fr) m(max 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (15 years and more) (nothing strictly between 10 and 15)
• Friulian: criminâl m
• Galician: delito m, malfeito m
• Georgian: დანაშაული (današauli)
• German: Straftat (de) f
• Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima), αδίκημα (el) n (adíkima) (law)
• Gujarati: અપરાધ n (aparādh)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: kalaima
• Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע‎ (he) m (pésha')
• Higaonon: sala
• Hindi: अपराध (hi) m (aprādh), जुर्म (hi) m (jurm)
• Hungarian: bűntény (hu), bűntett (hu), bűncselekmény (hu)
• Icelandic: glæpur (is) m
• Ido: krimino (io)
• Igbo: ihe ojoo
• Indonesian: kejahatan (id), pelanggaran (id), pelanggaran hukum
• Interlingua: crimine
• Irish: coir (ga) f, cion m
• Italian: crimine (it) m, delitto (it) m, reato (it) m
• Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi), 犯行 (ja) (はんこう, hankō)
• Javanese: angkara
• Kannada: ಅಪರಾಧ (kn) (aparādha), ತಕ್ಸೀರು (kn) (taksīru)
• Kazakh: қылмыс (kk) (qylmys)
• Khmer: បទឧក្រិដ្ឋ (bɑt ʼokkrət), ទោស (km) (tooh)
• Korean: 범죄(犯罪) (ko) (beomjoe), 죄(罪) (ko) (joe), 범행(犯行) (ko) (beomhaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sûc (ku), cînayet (ku), tawan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кылмыш (ky) (kılmış)
• Ladin: reat m
• Lao: ອາດຊະຍາກຳ (ʼāt sa nyā kam), ກຳມະໂທດ (kam ma thōt)
• Latin: scelus n, facinus n, maleficium n
• Latvian: noziegšanās m, noziegums m
• Lithuanian: nusikaltimas (lt) m, nusižengimas m
• Luxembourgish: Verbriechen
• Macedonian: злосторство n (zlostorstvo), злодело n (zlodelo), недело m (nedelo)
• Malay: jenayah (ms)
• Malayalam: കുറ്റം (ml) (kuṟṟaṃ), കുറ്റകൃത്യം (kuṟṟakr̥tyaṃ)
• Maltese: reat
• Manx: loght m
• Maori: hara, māhie, taihara
• Marathi: बदकर्म m (badkarma)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гэмт хэрэг (mn) (gemt xereg)

  Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠮᠲᠦ
  ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠭ (gemtü kereg)

• Nepali: अपराध (ne) (aparādh)
• Norman: crînme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forbrytelse (no) m

• Occitan: delicte (oc) m
• Old English: firen f
• Oriya: ଅପରାଧ (ôpôradhô)
• Oromo: yakka
• Pashto: جنايت‎ (ps) m (jenāyat)
• Persian: جُرم‎ (fa) (jorm), بِزه‎ (fa) (beze), جِنایَت‎ (fa) (jenâyat)
• Plautdietsch: Vebräakjen n
• Polish: przestępstwo (pl) n, zbrodnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: crime (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਜੁਰਮ (pa) (juram), ਅਪਰਾਧ (pa) (aparādh)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: infracțiune (ro), crimă (ro) f, fapt penal (ro) n
• Romansch: crim m
• Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), злодея́ние (ru) n (zlodejánije), злоде́йство (ru) n (zlodéjstvo)
• Sanskrit: अकृत्य (sa) n (akṛtya), एनस् (sa) n (enas)
• Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
• Scots: crime, wrang-daein
• Scottish Gaelic: eucoir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зло̀чин m

  Roman: zlòčin (sh) m

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: අපරාධය (aparādhaya)
• Slovak: zločin m
• Slovene: zločin (sl) m
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: delito (es) m, crimen (es) m
• Swahili: uhalifu (sw) class u, jinai (sw) class ma
• Swedish: brott (sv) n
• Tagalog: krimen
• Tajik: ҷиноят (jinoyat), ҷурм (jurm)
• Tamil: குற்றம் (ta) (kuṟṟam)
• Tatar: җинаять (tt) (cinayat’)
• Telugu: నేరము (te) (nēramu)
• Thai: อาชญากรรม (th) (àat-yaa-gam)
• Tibetan: ཉེས་པ (nyes pa)
• Tigrinya: ወንጀል (wänǧäl), ገበን (gäbän)
• Turkish: suç (tr), cinayet (tr)
• Turkmen: jenaýat (tk)
• Tuvan: кем-херек (kem-xerek)
• Ukrainian: зло́чин (uk) m (zlóčyn)
• Urdu: جُرْم‎ m (jurm), اَپْرادھ‎ m (aprādh), جِنایَت‎ f (jināyat)
• Uyghur: جىنايەت‎ (jinayet)
• Uzbek: jinoyat (uz)
• Vietnamese: tội ác (vi) (罪惡), tội phạm (vi) (罪犯)
• Volapük: klim
• Walloon: crime (wa) m
• Welsh: trosedd (cy) m
• West Frisian: misdied
• White Hmong: txhaum
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: פֿאַרברעך‎ n (farbrekh), פֿאַרברעכן‎ n (farbrekhn)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: cırm, cınayet
• Zulu: iseleleso

practice or habit of committing crimes

• Arabic: جَرِيمَة‎ (ar) f (jarīma)
• Armenian: հանցավորություն (hy) (hancʿavorutʿyun)
• Catalan: crim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罪行 (zh) (zuìxíng)

• Czech: zločinnost f
• Danish: kriminalitet c
• Dutch: misdaad (nl) f
• Esperanto: krimado
• Estonian: kuritegevus
• Finnish: rikollisuus (fi), rikos (fi)
• French: délit (fr) m(under 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (10 years and more)
• German: Verbrechen (de) n
• Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima)
• Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע‎ (he) m (pésha')
• Hungarian: bűnözés (hu)
• Italian: criminalità (it) f
• Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi)
• Korean: 범죄(犯罪) (ko) (beomjoe)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جەریمە‎ (ckb) (cerîme)

• Macedonian: злосторство n (zlostorstvo)
• Maltese: kriminalità f
• Norman: crînme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kriminalitet (no) m

• Portuguese: crime (pt) m, criminalidade (pt) f
• Romanian: criminalitate (ro) f
• Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), престу́пность (ru) n (prestúpnostʹ), кримина́л (ru) m (kriminál)
• Scottish Gaelic: eucoireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зло̀чин m

  Roman: zlòčin (sh) m

• Slovene: zločin (sl) m
• Spanish: delincuencia (es) f
• Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c
• Yoruba: ìwà ọ̀daràn

collective criminal acts

• Finnish: rikollisuus (fi)
• German: Kriminalität (de) f
• Greek: εγκληματικότητα (el) f (egklimatikótita)
• Romanian: delicvență (ro) f
• Russian: кримина́л (ru) m (kriminál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кримѝна̄л m

  Roman: krimìnāl (sh) m

• Spanish: delincuencia (es) f, criminalidad f
• Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c, kriminalitet (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: délit (fr) m(under 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (10 years and more) (1, 2)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kejahatan (id)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} nusikaltimas (lt) m
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} കുറ്റം (ml) (kuṟṟaṃ), ^{(please verify)} കുറ്റകൃത്യം (kuṟṟakr̥tyaṃ)
• Manchu: ^{(please verify)} weile
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} infracțiune (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} delict (ro) n
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} నేరప్రవృత్తి (nērapravr̥tti)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} suç (tr)

References

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
   • 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is, page 298:

     Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]

2. (nonce word) To commit crime.
   • 1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 61:

     If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

See also

• delictual
• felony
• offence
• sin
• administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

Asturian

Noun

crime m (plural crímenes)

1. murder
2. crime

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁim/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -im

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. a category of severe infractions within French law, with the strongest of penalties; a felony. (10 years and more according to law)

   Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.

Derived terms

• crime contre l'humanité
• crime de guerre
• crime d'honneur
• crime passionnel
• le crime ne paie pas

 

Related terms

• criminalité
• criminel
• criminogène
• criminologie

See also

• délit

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkri.me/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: crì‧me

Noun

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

Related terms

• crimine

Further reading

• crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• cremi, merci

Middle English

Noun

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French crime, from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾĩ.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾĩ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.m(ɨ)/

• Hyphenation: cri‧me

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.

   The thief committed a terrible crime.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

Related terms

• criminal
• criminoso

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrime]

Noun

crime f

1. inflection of crimă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular