crime

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen.

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
   • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to crime: organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

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

• crimebuster
• crime-free, crimefree
• crime index
• crime mapping
• crime rate
• crime-ridden, crimeridden
• crimestopper
• criminal
• criminal law
• criminally
• criminal record
• criminological
• criminologically
• criminologist
• criminology
• decriminalisation, decriminalization
• decriminalise, decriminalize
• noncriminal
• recriminalisation, recriminalization
• recriminalise, recriminalize

 

Translations

specific act committed in violation of the law

• Afrikaans: misdryf
• Albanian: krim (sq)
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جَرِيمَة (ar) f (jarīma), جِنَايَة (ar) f (jināya)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հանցանք (hy) (hancʻankʻ)
• Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: delitu m
• Azerbaijani: cinayət (az)
• Bashkir: енәйәт (yenəyət)
• Basque: delitua
• Belarusian: злачы́нства n (zlačýnstva), злачы́н m (zlačýn)
• Bengali: অপরাধ (bn) (ôpôradh)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• 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 (aparādha)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: kalaima
• Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע (he) m (pésha')
• Hindi: अपराध (hi) m (aprādh)
• Hungarian: bűntény (hu), bűntett (hu), bűncselekmény (hu)
• Icelandic: glæpur (is) m
• Ido: krimino (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: kejahatan (id), pelanggaran (id), pelanggaran hukum
• Interlingua: crimine
• Interlingue:
• 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 (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 (ko) (beomjoe) (犯罪 (ko))
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: jenayah
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: reat
• Manx: loght m
• Maori: hara, māhie, taihara
• Marathi: बदकर्म m (badkarma)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: гэмт хэрэг (mn) (gemt xereg)
• Norman: crînme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forbrytelse (no)

• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: delicte m
• Old English: morþ n, firen f
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: جنايت (ps) m (ǰenāyát)
• Persian: جرم (fa) (jorm), بزه (fa) (bezeh), جنایت (fa) (jenâyat)
• Polish: przestępstwo (pl) n, zbrodnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: crime (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਜੁਰਮ (pa) (juram)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: infracțiune (ro), crimă (ro) f
• Romansch: crim m
• Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), злодея́ние (ru) n (zlodejánije), злоде́йство (ru) n (zlodéjstvo)
• Sanskrit: अकृत्य (sa) n (akṛtya)
• 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)
• Swedish: brott (sv) n
• Tagalog: krimen
• Tajik: ҷиноят (jinoyat)
• Tamil: குற்றம் (ta) (kuṟṟam)
• Tatar: җинаять (tt) (cinayat’)
• Telugu: నేరము (te) (nēramu)
• Thai: อาชญากรรม (th) (àat-yaa-gam)
• Turkish: suç (tr), cinayet (tr)
• Turkmen: jenaýat (tk)
• Tuvan: кем-херек (kem-xerek)
• Ukrainian: зло́чин (uk) m (zlóčyn)
• Urdu: اپرادھ m (aprādh)
• Uyghur: جىنايەت (jinayet)
• Uzbek: jinoyat (uz)
• Vietnamese: tội ác (vi), tội phạm (vi) (罪犯)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Zulu: iseleleso

practice or habit of committing crimes

• Arabic: جَرِيمَة (ar) f (jarīma)
• Armenian: հանցավորություն (hy) (hancʻavorutʻyun)
• 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: פשע (he) m (pesha)
• Hungarian: bűnözés (hu)
• Italian: criminalità (it) f
• Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 범죄 (ko) (beomjoe) (犯罪 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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

collective criminal acts

• Finnish: rikollisuus (fi)
• German: Kriminalität (de) f
• Greek: εγκληματικότητα (el) f (egklimatikótita)
• Romanian: delicvență (ro) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: криминал 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)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} פשע (he) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kejahatan (id)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} nusikaltimas (lt) m
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} കുറ്റം (ml) (kuṟṟaṁ), ^{(please verify)} കുറ്റകൃത്യം (kuṟṟakr̥tyaṁ)
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• Manchu: ^{(please verify)} weile
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} بزه (fa) (bezeh), ^{(please verify)} جرم (fa) (jorm)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} infracțiune (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} delict (ro) n
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} నేరప్రవృత్తి (nērapravr̥tti)
• (deprecated template usage) Turkish: suç [çu]

References

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crim, present participle es, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (nonstandard, rare) To commit crime(s).
   • 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

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

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

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French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) 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.

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

Related terms

• crimine

References

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

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Middle English

Noun

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French crime, from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkri.mi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimɨ/

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