steal

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; see below for more.

For the meaning development compare with and.

Proposed etymologies beyond Germanic are numerous and include
 * : compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬
 * : compare Albanian pë/mbë, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬
 * : compare 🇨🇬 and other forms under Pokorny 5. *sel- "schleichen, kriechen"

Verb

 * 1)  To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
 * 2)  To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
 * 3)  To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
 * 4)  To acquire at a low price.
 * 5)  To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
 * 6)  To move silently or secretly.
 * 7)  To convey (something) clandestinely.
 * 8) To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
 * 9)  To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
 * 10)  To dispossess
 * 11)  To borrow for a short moment.
 * 12)  take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
 * 1)  To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
 * 2)  To move silently or secretly.
 * 3)  To convey (something) clandestinely.
 * 4) To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
 * 5)  To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
 * 6)  To dispossess
 * 7)  To borrow for a short moment.
 * 8)  take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
 * 1) To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
 * 2)  To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
 * 3)  To dispossess
 * 4)  To borrow for a short moment.
 * 5)  take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
 * 1)  To borrow for a short moment.
 * 2)  take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
 * 1)  take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
 * 1)  take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing

Antonyms

 * (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
 * (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant

Troponyms

 * shoplift

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aklanon: takaw
 * Albanian:
 * Andi: бекъашду
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: سرق
 * Gulf Arabic: باق
 * Hijazi Arabic: سرق, نهب
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: fur
 * Assamese: চুৰ কৰ
 * Asturian: robar
 * Avar: бикъизе
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: lapurtu, ebatsi
 * Belarusian: кра́сці, скра́сці
 * Bengali: চুরি করা
 * Big Nambas: iv'ənah
 * Borôro: iwogu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: ba
 * Chickasaw: honkopa, i̠honkopa, aahonkopa, imaahonkopa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 偷, 盜, 偷嘢, 盜竊
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chuvash: вӑрла
 * Cornish: ladra
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, skáka
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მოპარვა
 * German:, , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌽, 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κλέπτω
 * Greenlandic: tillippoq
 * Guaraní: monda
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: takaw
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, hnupla
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: varastaa
 * Irish: goid
 * Istro-Romanian: furå
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Judeo-Italian: גנביר
 * Kabuverdianu: rabata, rebatá
 * Kazakh: ұрлау
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Kituba: yiba, kuyiba
 * Korean:
 * Krio: tif
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دزین
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ລັກ, ຍາດ, ສົກ, ລັກສົກ
 * Latgalian: zagt
 * Latin: clepō, fūror
 * Latvian: zagt
 * Lingala: yíba, koyiba
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: róbà, rübà
 * Low German:
 * Lü: ᦟᧅ
 * Luxembourgish: stielen
 * Macedonian: краде
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: seraq
 * Mansaka: takaw
 * Maori: tāhae, kaiā, keiā, whānako, whēnako
 * Mapudungun: weñen
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: авалткалаш
 * Middle English: stelen
 * Mongolian:, хулгай хийх
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: hiɓa
 * Nigerian Pidgin: tiff
 * Norman: voler
 * North Frisian: steel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stela
 * Occitan: ,
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: красти
 * Old East Slavic: красти
 * Old English: stelan
 * Old Javanese: coloṅ
 * Oromo: hatuu
 * Ossetian: давын
 * Ottoman Turkish: چالمق
 * Paiwan: tsakau
 * Pashto: تروړل
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , ,  ,  , przywłaszczyć sobie, zwędzić , zakosić ,  , podiwanić ,  , chapnąć , głabnąć , zarąbać ,  , podpierdolić ,  , erbnąć ,  ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: suway, suwai
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: engular
 * Russian:, , , , ,  ,  ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: goid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: красти
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: හොරකම් කරනවා
 * Slovak: kradnúť, ukradnúť
 * Slovene: ,
 * Somali: xadid
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kšadnuś
 * Upper Sorbian: kradnyć
 * Sotho:
 * Southern Altai: уурдаар
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese: colong
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: magnakaw
 * Tajik: дуздидан, дуздӣ кардан
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: takaw
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: na'ok, hana'o
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: རྐུ
 * Tocharian B: kälyp-
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ogurlamak
 * Tuvan: оорлаар, оорлап алыр
 * Ukrainian: кра́сти, укра́сти, сви́снути, поцу́пити , спи́здити
 * Urdu: چرانا
 * Uyghur: ئوغرىلىماق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, chôm,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: takew
 * White Hmong: nyiag
 * Yiddish: גנבֿענען, אַוועקגנבֿענען
 * Zazaki: tırayen, tırahen, tırıten, tırıyen
 * Zhuang: caeg, raeg


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: rabata, rebatá
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: goid


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: viedä huomio,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Telugu:, కొట్టేయు


 * Arabic: اِسْتَرَقَ
 * Bulgarian: прокрадвам се
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German: sich ,
 * Hebrew: התגנב
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 忍び足をする
 * Macedonian: се прикрадува
 * Maori: whakamoho, nihinihi, whakaninihi, whakamoke, whakamōkihi
 * Norwegian: liste seg
 * Romanian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: גנבֿענען


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 偷垒
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:


 * Interlingua: ,
 * Tupinambá:

Noun

 * 1) The act of stealing.
 * 2)   A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price.
 * At this price, this car is a steal.
 * 1)  A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
 * 2)  A stolen base.
 * 3)  Scoring in an end without the hammer.
 * 4)  A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Synonyms

 * (great / real / very good)

Translations

 * Bulgarian: промоция,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 掘り出し物
 * Norwegian: kupp
 * Bokmål: tyverikjøp
 * Romanian:
 * Turkish:, malaka ,
 * Yiddish: מציאה פֿון אַ גנבֿ


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: vargus, varastamine
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: גניבה
 * Italian:, ruberia
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: goid
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:


 * Catalan:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Italian: