krimen

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish crimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.men̪]
• Hyphenation: kri‧men

Noun

krímen (Basahan spelling ᜃ᜔ᜍᜒᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

1. crime

Related terms

• kriminal
• kriminalidad
• kriminolohiya

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish crimen (“violent crime”), from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.men]
• Hyphenation: kri‧men

Noun

krimen (Kur-itan spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

1. crime

References

• Andrés Carro (1888), Vocabulario ilocano-español: trabajado por varios religiosos del orden de N.P.S. Agustín / coordinado por Predicador Andrés Carro y ultimamente aumentado y corregido por algunos religiosos del mismo orden‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Ilocano), Manila: Est. Tipo-Litográfico de M. Pérez

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krîːmen/
• Hyphenation: kri‧men

Noun

krȋmen m inan (Cyrillic spelling кри̑мен)

1. crime, offense
2. sin, fault

Declension

Declension of krimen

	singular	plural
nominative	krimen	krimeni
genitive	krimena	krimena
dative	krimenu	krimenima
accusative	krimen	krimene
vocative	krimene	krimeni
locative	krimenu	krimenima
instrumental	krimenom	krimenima

References

• “krimen”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *krey-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥

Proto-Italic *kreimən

Latin crīmenlbor.

Spanish crimenbor.

Tagalog krimen

Borrowed from Spanish crimen (“violent crime”), a learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”), from Proto-Italic *kreimən, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- + *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈmen/ [k̠ɾɪˈmɛn̪], /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈk̠ɾiː.mɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -en, -imen
• Syllabification: kri‧men

Noun

krimén or krimen (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

1. crime

Derived terms

• krimen laban sa sangkatauhan
• magkakrimen
• Pandaigdigang Hukumang Pangkrimen

Related terms

• kriminal
• kriminalidad
• kriminolohiya

See also

• kasalanan
• pagkakasala

Further reading

• “krimen”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “krimen”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018