thief

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from. Spelling from Northern England, where /eːo/ became [iə] rather than [eː]. (Compare the spelling of deep from Old English .)

Noun

 * 1) One who carries out a theft.
 * 2) One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
 * 3)  A waster in the snuff of a candle.
 * 1) One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
 * 2)  A waster in the snuff of a candle.
 * 1)  A waster in the snuff of a candle.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аӷьычҩы
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: لِصّ, لِصَّة,, سَارِقَة, حَرَامِيّ, حَرَامِيَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: حرامى
 * Gulf Arabic: بايك
 * Hijazi Arabic: حرامي, سَرَّاق
 * Moroccan Arabic: سراق, شفار
 * Aragonese: furtaire
 * Archi: цӏогьор
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: fur, furcudar, haramiu, chisãgi, caceac
 * Assamese: চোৰ
 * Asturian: lladrón
 * Avar: цӏогьор
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Baluchi: دز
 * Bashkir: бур, уғры, ҡараҡ
 * Basque: lapur, ebasle
 * Belarusian: зло́дзей, зладзе́йка
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: paraikit
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, арами́я , арами́йка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kawatan
 * Chakma: 𑄌𑄪𑄢𑄴
 * Chamicuro: ma'koleti
 * Chechen: къу
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏃᏍᎩᏍᎩ
 * Chichewa: wakuba
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 賊
 * Dungan: зый, вэзый
 * Gan: 賊
 * Hakka: 賊仔
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Northern Min: 賊
 * Wu: 賊骨頭, 賊
 * Chuvash: вӑрӑ
 * Cimbrian: diip
 * Corsican:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, tyveknægt
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Emilian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: fiafi, fiafitɔ
 * Extremaduran:
 * Faroese: tjóvur
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Franco-Provençal: lârro
 * French: ,
 * Frisian:
 * North Frisian: tiif
 * Friulian: lari
 * Galician: ladrón, lespio, galafate, ladroeiro, gallofo, regatiñeiro, surpón
 * Gallo:
 * Georgian: ქურდი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃, 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κλέπτης, κλώψ, φώρ
 * Gujarati: દસ્યુ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: kawatan
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: mannanakaw
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: varas
 * Ingush: къу
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: laro
 * Italian:, , ladruncolo, , , , , ,
 * Japanese:, , 窃盗者
 * Javanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: хулхач
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: ұры
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: mũici
 * Kituba: muyibi
 * Komi-Permyak: гусь
 * Kongo: mwivi
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: lère
 * Ladino:
 * Hebrew: לאד׳רון
 * Roman: ladrón, ladhron
 * Lao: ກະໂມຽ,, ໂຈນ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: zaglis, zagle
 * Laz: mamxire
 * Leonese:
 * Lezgi: угъри
 * Ligurian: laddro
 * Lingala: moyibi
 * Lithuanian: vagis, vagė
 * Livonian: salāj
 * Lombard:
 * Low German: Deef
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: крадец, крадачка, арамија, арамијка
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: ħalliel
 * Maori: kaiā, tāhae, whānako
 * Mapudungun: weñefe
 * Marathi: चोर
 * Mirandese: lhadron
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠢᠢᠴᠢ, ᠬᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠢ
 * Mwani: mwivi
 * Nanai: чово
 * Navajo: aniʼįįhii
 * Neapolitan: latro, mariuólo, mariunciéllo, ferraiuólo, màneco 'ancino
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: mwidzi
 * Nigerian Pidgin: tiff
 * Norman: voleux
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: tjuv
 * Occitan:, , ,
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: gimoodishk
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: татъ, зълодѣи
 * Old English: þēof
 * Old Norse: þjófr
 * Oromo: hattuu
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوغری, حرامی, خرسز
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Phoenician: 𐤀𐤂𐤓𐤃
 * Piedmontese: làder
 * Polish:, , , amator cudzej własności
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਚੋਰ
 * Quechua: suwa
 * Rohingya: sur
 * Romagnol: lêdar
 * Romani: ćor
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: lader, leder
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: mèirleach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ло́пов, та̏т, кра̀дљивац, хара̀мија
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sicilian:, ,
 * Sidamo: mooraancho
 * Sinhalese: හොරා
 * Slovak:, zlodejka
 * Slovene:, tatica
 * Somali: tuug
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: złoźej
 * Upper Sorbian: paduch
 * Southern Altai: уур
 * Spanish:, ,  , mangante ,
 * Sundanese: maling
 * Svan: ქუ̂ით
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: угъри
 * Tagalog: magnanakaw
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh: دزد
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: tràmpiʼína
 * Tarantino:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: རྐུ་མ
 * Tocharian B: lyak
 * Tok Pisin: raskol
 * Turkish:, ; ,
 * Turkmen: ogry
 * Tuvan: оор
 * Ukrainian: зло́дій, зло́дійка, ,
 * Urdu: چور, دُزْد
 * Uyghur: ئوغرى
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: laro, ladro, ladron
 * Vietnamese: kẻ trộm, kẻ cắp, kẻ ăn trộm
 * Vilamovian: dīb
 * Volapük:,  hitifan,
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Waray-Waray: buyon
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: גנבֿ, גנבֿטע
 * Yucatec Maya: ookol
 * Zazaki: tırıter, xırxız