vagabond

English

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) enPR: văg'ə-bŏnd, IPA^(key): /ˈvæɡ.ə.bɒnd/

Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
2. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Genesis iv. 12

     A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vagabond

Hypernyms

• person

Related terms

• extravagant

Translations

a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浪人 (zh) (làngrén)

• Czech: vagabund m
• Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c
• Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin f
• Hindi: आवारा (hi) m (āvārā)
• Hungarian: vándor (hu)
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (fūraibō)
• Maori: tipiwhenua

• Polish: wagabunda (pl) m
• Portuguese: vagabundo (pt) m
• Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
• Russian: стра́нник (ru) m (stránnik), стра́нница (ru) f (stránnica), скита́лец (ru) m (skitálec)
• Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dundak m

• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Swedish: vagabond (sv)
• Welsh: crwydryn m

a bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person

• Bulgarian: бездомник (bg) m (bezdómnik), скитник (bg) m (skítnik), клошар m (klošár)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流浪漢 (zh), 流浪汉 (zh) (liúlànghàn)

• Crimean Tatar: bıralqı
• Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c, landstryger c, stodder (da) c
• Dutch: vagebond (nl) m
• Esperanto: vagulo
• Finnish: pummi (fi), kulkuri (fi), irtolainen (fi), asunnoton (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• Georgian: მოხეტიალე (ka) (moxeṭiale)
• German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀλήτης m (alḗtēs)

• Hungarian: csavargó (hu)
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (fūraibō)
• Maori: tipiwhenua, kōripi
• Navajo: naʼałjidí
• Norman: paillard m, vacâbond m
• Portuguese: andarilho m
• Russian: бродя́га (ru) m (brodjága), бомж (ru) m (bomž)
• Serbo-Croatian: skitnica (sh) m, tumaralo (sh) m, vagabund (sh) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dundak m

• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) gliban (vo), (♂) higliban, (♀) jigliban

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: vagebond m (1, 2), zwerver m (1, 2)

• Maori: ^{(please verify)} tiara

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

1. To roam, as a vagabond

Translations

to roam as a vagabond

• Crimean Tatar: bıralqılamaq
• Finnish: reissata
• German: vagabundieren (de)
• Japanese: 放浪する (hōrō suru), 流浪する (ja) (rurō suru)

• Maori: tipiwhenua
• Romanian: a vagabonda
• Russian: скитаться (ru) impf (skitatʹsja)
• Swedish: ströva (sv), luffa (sv), vagabondera (sv)

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.

   • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover

     Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/

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Adjective

vagabond (feminine singular vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)

1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

Derived terms

• vagabonder

Further reading

• “vagabond” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Romanian

Etymology

From French vagabond.

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp, (a homeless person)