burglary

English

Etymology

From New Latin burglaria. Equivalent to burglar +‎ -y. Displaced native Old English hūsbryċe (literally “house-breach”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.ɡlə.ɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝ.ɡlɚ.i/

Noun

burglary (countable and uncountable, plural burglaries)

1. The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
   • 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     Essentially, Jarden makes anything that you’d find left behind after a burglary.

   1. (law) Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.
   2. (law, US) Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.

Derived terms

• antiburglary
• cat burglary
• hot burglary

 

Related terms

• burglar
• burglar alarm
• burglarize
• burglarproof
• burgle
• cat burglar

 

Translations

the crime of breaking into

• Arabic: سَطْو (ar) m (saṭw), لُصُوصِيَّة f (luṣūṣiyya)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: крадзе́ж з узло́мам m (kradzjéž z uzlómam)
• Bulgarian: кражба чрез взлом f (kražba črez vzlom)
• Catalan: violació de domicili
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 入室盜竊／入室盗窃 (rùshì dàoqiè)

• Czech: vloupání (cs) n
• Danish: indbrud n
• Dutch: inbraak (nl)
• Esperanto: rompoŝtelo
• Estonian: vargus
• Finnish: murto (fi)
• French: cambriolage (fr) m
• Georgian: გატეხით ქურდობა (gaṭexit kurdoba)
• German: Einbruch (de) m, Einbruchdiebstahl m
• Greek: διάρρηξη (el) f (diárrixi)
• Hebrew: פריצה f (pritza)
• Icelandic: innbrot (is) n
• Ido: rupto-furto (io)
• Irish: buirgléireacht f
• Japanese: 侵入窃盗 (しんにゅうせっとう, shinnyū settō)
• Khmer: ការលបចូលលួច (kaa lɔɔp coul luəc)
• Latin: effractura f, compīlātiō f
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innbrudd n

  Nynorsk: innbrott n

• Old English: hūsbryċe m
• Polish: kradzież z włamaniem
• Portuguese: arrombamento (pt) m
• Russian: кра́жа со взло́мом f (kráža so vzlómom), бе́рглэри n (bɛ́rglɛri) (usually of Anglophone countries)
• Spanish: allanamiento de morada m
• Swedish: inbrott (sv) n
• Thai: ขโมยเข้าบ้าน, การโจรกรรม
• Ukrainian: краді́жка із зло́мом f (kradížka iz zlómom)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: nübreik (vo)

See also

• breaking and entering
• trespass