curi

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See also: curí, ĉuri, čúṛi, and çuri

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Chemical element
Cm
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Noun

curi m (uncountable)

  1. curium

Etymology 2

Verb

curi

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽìː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):

Noun

cūrī̀ m (possessed form cūrìn)

  1. ball of food
  2. verbal noun of cura

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay curi, from Hindi चोरी (corī, “thief”), from Sanskrit चोर (cora, “thief, robber”) with the root चुर् (cur, “to steal, rob”). Cognate of Javanese ꦕꦺꦴꦫꦃ (corah, “thief, bandit; bad person”), Old Javanese corah, cora (“thief, robber”).

Pronunciation

Verb

mencuri

  1. to steal (to illegally take possession of)

Conjugation

Conjugation of curi (meng-, transitive)
Root curi
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active mencuri dicuri curi curilah
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 mencurikan dicurikan curikan curikanlah
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ri/
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Hyphenation: cù‧ri

Verb

curi

  1. inflection of curare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first-person singular second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Malay

Etymology

From Hindi चुराना (curānā).

Verb

curi

  1. to steal (to illegally take possession of)

Derived terms

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

curi

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cura (to clean)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

curi (Cyrillic spelling цури)

  1. dative/locative singular of cura

Vietnamese

Chemical element
Cm
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Etymology

Ultimately from New Latin curium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

Pronunciation

Noun

curi

  1. curium
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