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From Middle English robberie, robry, roberie, from Old French roberie, from the verb rober (“to steal; to pillage”) + -ie. Ultimately from unattested Frankish *raubōn. By surface analysis, rob + -ery. Compare Dutch roverij (“robbery”), Norwegian Bokmål røveri (“robbery”), German Räuberei (“robbery, banditry”).
Displaced native Old English rēaflāc.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒbəɹi/, /ˈɹɒbɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑbəɹi/
- Hyphenation: rob‧bery
robbery (countable and uncountable, plural robberies)
- The act or practice of robbing.
- (crime) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
bank robbery
(attempt of taking the property of another by threat): larceny
- (attempt of taking the property of another by threat): piracy, armed robbery, aggravated robbery, highway robbery, mugging, carjacking, extortion, stick-up (slang), blagging (slang), steaming (slang), dacoity
act or practice of robbing
- Arabic: سَرِقَة (ar) f (sariqa), لُصُوصِيَّة f (luṣūṣiyya)
- Azerbaijani: soyğun, soyma, çapqın, çapovul, talan (az), qarət (az)
- Belarusian: грабе́ж m (hrabjéž), разбо́й m (razbój), лупе́ж m (lupjéž), рабу́нак m (rabúnak)
- Bulgarian: грабе́ж (bg) m (grabéž), о́бир (bg) m (óbir)
- Catalan: robatori (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: loupež (cs) f
- Danish: røveri n
- Dutch: roof (nl) m, beroving (nl) f
- Egyptian: (ꜥwꜣ)
- Esperanto: rabado
- Finnish: ryöstö (fi) (act), ryöstely (practice), ryöstäminen (fi) (act), ryösteleminen (practice)
- French: brigandage (fr) m, vol à main armée
- Galician: roubo (gl) m
- Georgian: ძარცვა (ʒarcva)
- German: Raub (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: λῃστεία f (lēisteía)
- Hindi: लूट (hi) f (lūṭ)
- Hungarian: rablás (hu)
- Italian: furto (it) m, ruberia f, rapina (it) f
- Japanese: 強盗 (ja) (がんどう, gandō, ごうとう, gōtō)
- Kazakh: тонау (tonau)
- Korean: 강도 (ko) (gangdo)
- Latin: latrocinium (la) n
- Macedonian: грабеж m (grabež), пљачка f (pljačka)
- Malay: rompakan (ms)
- Malayalam: കൊള്ള (ml) (koḷḷa)
- Marathi: दरोडा m (daroḍā), दरोडेखोरी f (daroḍekhorī)
- Middle English: robberie, revynge, robbynge
- Norwegian:
- Old English: rēaflāc n
- Persian: دستبرد (fa) (dastbord), سرقت (fa) (serqat)
- Polish: napad (pl) m, rabunek (pl) m, grabież (pl) f, rozbój (pl) m
- Portuguese: roubo (pt) m, furto (pt) m
- Russian: грабёж (ru) m (grabjóž), ограбле́ние (ru) m (ograblénije), разбо́й (ru) m (razbój)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: lúpež f
- Slovene: rop (sl) m
- Spanish: robo (es) m, choreo (es) m (South America), shacamento m (Argentina), hurto (es) m, furto (es) m
- Swedish: rån (sv) n
- Tamil: கொள்ளை (ta) (koḷḷai)
- Turkish: soygun (tr)
- Ukrainian: грабі́ж m (hrabíž), грабу́нок m (hrabúnok), грабі́жка f (hrabížka)
- Vietnamese: cướp giật (vi)
robbery
- Alternative form of robberie