theft

English

Etymology

From Middle English thefte, thiefthe, theofthe, thiufthe, from Old English þīfþ, þȳfþ, þēoft, earlier þīefþ, þēofþ ‎(“act of thieving; theft”), from Proto-Germanic *þiubiþō, from *þeubaz ‎(“thief”), equivalent to thief +‎ -th or thieve +‎ -th. Cognate with Old Frisian thiuvethe, thiufthe ‎(“theft”), Old Norse þýfð, þýft, and (obsolete) Dutch diefte.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /θɛft/
• Rhymes: -ɛft

Noun

theft ‎(plural thefts)

1. The act of stealing property.

Translations

act of stealing property

• Abkhaz: аӡара ‎(āʒārā)
• Afrikaans: diefstal
• Albanian: vjedhje (sq) f
• Arabic: سَرِقَة f ‎(sariqa)
• Armenian: գողություն (hy) ‎(gołutʿyun), հափշտակում (hy) ‎(hapʿštakum), առեւանգում ‎(aṙewangum)
• Azeri: oğurluq (az), soyğun
• Belarusian: крадзеж m ‎(kradzjéž), кража f ‎(kráža)
• Bengali: চুরি ‎(curi)
• Bulgarian: кражба (bg) f ‎(krážba)
• Catalan: robatori (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盜竊 (zh), 盗窃 (zh) ‎(dàoqiè)

• Czech: krádež (cs) f
• Danish: tyveri (da) n
• Dutch: diefstal (nl) f
• Esperanto: ŝtelado
• Estonian: vargus
• Finnish: varkaus (fi)
• French: vol (fr) m
• Georgian: ქურდობა ‎(kurdoba)
• German: Diebstahl (de) m
• Greek: κλοπή (el) f ‎(klopí)

  Ancient: κλοπή f ‎(klopḗ)

• Hebrew: גזל
• Hindi: चोरी (hi) f ‎(corī)
• Hungarian: lopás (hu)
• Icelandic: þjófnaður (is) m
• Ido: furto (io)
• Interlingue: furte
• Irish: goid f
• Italian: furto (it) m
• Japanese: 盗み ‎(ぬすみ, nusumi)
• Norman: vol m
• Kazakh: ұрлық ‎(urlıq)
• Korean: 도둑질 (ko) ‎(dodukjil), 절도 ‎(jeoldo)
• Latin: furtum n

• Latvian: zādzība f
• Lithuanian: vagystė (lt) f
• Macedonian: кражба f ‎(krážba)
• Maori: whānako
• Marathi: चोरी f ‎(corī)
• Navajo: aniʼį́į́ʼ, aneestʼį́į́ʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tyveri n, tjuveri n

  Nynorsk: tjuveri n

• Persian: دزدی (fa) ‎(dozdi)
• Polish: kradzież (pl) f
• Portuguese: roubo (pt) m, furto (pt) m
• Romanian: furt (ro) m
• Russian: кра́жа (ru) f ‎(kráža), воровство́ (ru) n ‎(vorovstvó), хище́ние (ru) n ‎(xiščénije), уго́н (ru) m ‎(ugón) (esp. of a vehicle)
• Scottish Gaelic: meirle m, gadachd f, goid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кра̏ђа f

  Roman: krȁđa (sh) f

• Slovak: krádež f
• Slovene: kraja (sl) f
• Spanish: robo (es) m, hurto (es) m
• Swahili: wizi (sw)
• Swedish: stöld (sv)
• Telugu: దొంగతనము (te) ‎(doṃgatanamu)
• Thai: โจรกรรม ‎(john-rá-gam)
• Turkish: soygun (tr), hırsızlık (tr), çalma (tr)
• Ukrainian: крадіжка (uk) f ‎(kradížka), покража f ‎(pokráža), крадіж (uk) m ‎(krádiž)
• Urdu: چوری f ‎(corī)
• Uzbek: oʻgʻrilik (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự trộm cắp (vi), sự ăn trộm (vi)
• Volapük: tif (vo)
• Warlpiri: puru
• Welsh: lladrad (cy) m

Derived terms

• petty theft

Related terms

• thief
• thieve

See also

• nick
• steal
• TWOC

External links

• Theft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia