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English
Etymology
From Middle English theft, thefte, þefte, þefþe, þiefþe, Old English þīefþ, from Proto-West Germanic *þiubiþu, from Proto-Germanic *þiubiþō, from *þeubaz (“thief”), equivalent to thief + -th or thieve + -th. Cognate with Old Frisian thiuvethe, thiufthe (“theft”), dialectal Dutch diefte (“theft”), obsolete German Diebde (“theft”), Icelandic þýfð (“theft”).
Pronunciation
Noun
theft (countable and uncountable, plural thefts)
- The act of stealing property.
- Hyponyms: robbery, conquest
resource theft
Bike theft is on the rise.
A suspect was arrested for the theft of a gold necklace.
2007 July 5, Charles Hugh Smith, When Lies Become Normal, Is Truth Dead or Just in Hiding?:If you steal a candy bar, you are guilty of theft, regardless of the value.
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Translations
act of stealing property
- Abkhaz: аӡара (adzara)
- Afrikaans: diefstal (af)
- Albanian: vjedhje (sq) f
- Arabic: سَرِقَة (ar) f (sariqa), سَرَقَة (ar) f (saraqa), سَرْق (ar) m (sarq), سَرَق (ar) m (saraq), سَرِق (ar) m (sariq), نَهْب m (nahb)
- Gulf Arabic: بوق m (bōg)
- Armenian: գողություն (hy) (goġutʻyun), հափշտակում (hy) (hapʻštakum), առեւանգում (hy) (aṙewangum)
- Azerbaijani: oğurluq (az), soyğun
- Belarusian: крадзе́ж m (kradzjéž), кра́жа f (kráža)
- Bengali: চুরি (bn) (curi)
- Bikol Central: ikit (bcl)
- Bulgarian: кра́жба (bg) f (krážba)
- Catalan: furt (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 盜竊 / 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
- Galician: roubo (gl) m
- Georgian: ქურდობა (kurdoba)
- German: Diebstahl (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌹 n (þiubi)
- Greek: κλοπή (el) f (klopí)
- Ancient: κλοπή f (klopḗ)
- Hebrew: גְּנֵבָה f (gnevá), גָּזֵל (he) m (gazél)
- Higaonon: theft
- Hindi: चोरी (hi) f (corī)
- Hungarian: lopás (hu)
- Icelandic: þjófnaður (is) m
- Ido: furto (io)
- Ingrian: varkahus
- Irish: goid f
- Italian: furto (it) m
- Japanese: 盗み (ja) (ぬすみ, nusumi), 窃盗 (ja) (せっとう, settō), 盗難 (ja) (とうなん, tōnan) (passive)
- Kazakh: ұрлық (ūrlyq)
- Korean: 도둑질 (ko) (dodukjil), 절도(竊盜) (ko) (jeoldo), 훔침 (humchim)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dizî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: уурулук (ky) (uuruluk)
- Ladino: ladronisyo m
- Latin: furtum n
- Latvian: zādzība f
- Lithuanian: vagystė (lt) f
- Macedonian: кражба f (kražba)
- Malayalam: കളവ് (ml) (kaḷavŭ), മോഷണം (ml) (mōṣaṇaṁ)
- Maori: whānako
- Marathi: चोरी (mr) f (corī)
- Middle English: thefte
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хулгай (mn) (xulgaj)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠢ (qulaɣai)
- Navajo: aniʼį́į́ʼ, aneestʼį́į́ʼ
- Norman: vol m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tyveri n, tjuveri n
- Nynorsk: tjuveri n
- Odia: ଚୋରି (or) (cori)
- Old English: þīefþu f
- Pashto: سرقت m (šerqat), سرقه f (serqa), غلا (ps) f (ǧlā)
- Persian: دُزدی (fa) (dozdi)
- Polish: kradzież (pl) f
- Portuguese: roubo (pt) m, furto (pt) m
- Romanian: furt (ro) n
- 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 (sk) f, lúpež f
- Slovene: kraja (sl) f
- Spanish: robo (es) m, hurto (es) m, furto (es) m, choreo (es) m, shacamento m (Argentina)
- Swahili: wizi (sw)
- Swedish: stöld (sv) c, tjuvande (sv), tjuveri (sv), tjuft
- Sylheti: ꠌꠥꠞꠤ (suri)
- Tagalog: pagnanakaw
- Tajik: дуздӣ (duzdi)
- Tamil: திருட்டு (ta) (tiruṭṭu), களவு (ta) (kaḷavu)
- Tatar: урлау (urlaw)
- Telugu: దొంగతనము (te) (doṅgatanamu)
- Thai: โจรกรรม (th) (joo-rá-gam), การลักทรัพย์ (gaan-lák-sáp)
- Tocharian B: klepe
- Turkish: soygun (tr), hırsızlık (tr), çalma (tr)
- Turkmen: ogurlyk
- Ukrainian: краді́жка (uk) f (kradížka), покра́жа f (pokráža), кра́діж (uk) m (krádiž)
- Urdu: چوری f (corī)
- Uyghur: ئوغرىلىق (oghriliq)
- Uzbek: oʻgʻrilik (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự trộm cắp (vi), sự ăn trộm (vi)
- Volapük: tif (vo)
- Warlpiri: puru
- Welsh: lladrad (cy) m
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Middle English
Noun
theft
- Alternative form of thefte