brigand

English

WOTD – 15 January 2009

Etymology

From Middle English circa 1400, from Old French brigand (“foot soldier”) attested from 1421, from Italian briga (“trouble, bother”), perhaps ultimately of Germanic or Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

brigand (plural brigands)

1. An outlaw or bandit.

Related terms

• brigandage

Translations

bandit

• Armenian: ավազակ (hy) (avazak)

  Old Armenian: աւազակ (awazak)

• Bashkir: юлбаҫар (yulbaθar)
• Bulgarian: разбо́йник (bg) m (razbójnik), банди́т (bg) m (bandít)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 強盜 (zh), 强盗 (zh) (qiángdào), 土匪 (zh) (tǔfěi)

• Czech: zbojník m
• Danish: røver c
• Dutch: rover (nl), bandiet (nl)
• Esperanto: eksterleĝulo
• Finnish: rosvo (fi)
• French: brigand (fr) m, bandit (fr) m
• Georgian: ყაჩაღი (q̇ačaɣi), ავაზაკი (avazaḳi)
• German: Brigant (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: λῃστής m (lēistḗs)

• Hebrew: שודד‎ (he) m, לסטים‎ (he) m (listim)
• Hungarian: briganti (hu)

• Italian: bandito (it) m, brigante (it) m, malandrino (it) m, masnadiere m
• Japanese: 山賊 (ja) (さんぞく, sanzoku)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەتە‎ (çete)

• Latin: latrō (la) m
• Manx: roosteyr m
• Mingrelian: ავაზაკი (avazaḳi)
• Polish: bandyta (pl) m, zbój (pl) m
• Portuguese: bandido (pt) m
• Russian: разбо́йник (ru) m (razbójnik), разбо́йница (ru) f (razbójnica), банди́т (ru) m (bandít), банди́тка (ru) f (bandítka)
• Scottish Gaelic: spùinneadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ха̀јдӯк m, ба̀ндӣт

  Roman: hàjdūk (sh) m, bàndīt (sh) m

• Spanish: bandido (es) m
• Swedish: stråtrövare
• Udi: абазакӏ (abazaḳ)

Anagrams

• barding

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.ɡɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

brigand m (plural brigands)

1. (derogatory) thief

Further reading

• “brigand” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old French

Noun

brigand m (oblique plural briganz or brigantz, nominative singular briganz or brigantz, nominative plural brigand)

1. foot soldier

Descendants

• → English: brigand

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (brigand)