theft

English[edit]

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.

theft (countable and uncountable, plural thefts)

act of stealing property

Abkhaz: аӡара (āʒārā)
Afrikaans: diefstal (af)
Albanian: vjedhje (sq) f
Arabic: سَرِقَة‎‎ f (sariqa)
Armenian: գողություն (hy) (gołutʿyun), հափշտակում (hy) (hapʿštakum), առեւանգում (aṙewangum)
Azerbaijani: oğurluq (az), soyğun
Belarusian: крадзе́ж m (kradzjéž), кра́жа f (kráža)
Bengali: চুরি (curi)
Bulgarian: кра́жба (bg) f (krážba)
Catalan: furt m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 盜竊 (zh), 盗窃 (zh) (dàoqiè)
Czech: krádež (cs) f
Danish: tyveri (da) n
Dutch: diefstal (nl) f, dieverij (nl) f
Esperanto: ŝtelado
Estonian: vargus
Faroese: stuldur m, rán n
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)
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)
Mongolian: хулгай (mn) (hulgaj)
Navajo: aniʼį́į́ʼ, aneestʼį́į́ʼ
Norman: vol m
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)
Tagalog: pagnanakaw
Tamil: திருட்டு (ta) (tiruṭṭu)
Telugu: దొంగతనము (te) (doṅgatanamu)
Thai: โจรกรรม (joo-rá-gam)
Turkish: soygun (tr), hırsızlık (tr), çalma (tr)
Ukrainian: краді́жка (uk) f (kradížka), покра́жа f (pokráža), кра́діж (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