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Etymology
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From Middle English felony, felonie, from Old French felonie (“evil, immoral deed”), from felon (“evildoer”). Ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. More at felon.
Pronunciation
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felony (plural felonies)
- (US, historical in UK, law) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year or by death.
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a serious criminal offense
- Arabic: جِنَايَة (ar) f (jināya)
- Gulf Arabic: جناية f (jināya)
- Bulgarian: углавно престъпление n (uglavno prestǎplenie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 重罪 (zh) (zhòngzuì)
- Czech: trestný čin (cs) m, závažný trestný čin m
- Dutch: (Netherlands) misdrijf (nl) n, (Belgium) misdaad (nl) f
- Finnish: törkeä rikos (fi)
- French: crime (fr) m
- German: Verbrechen (de) n (defined similarly to “felony”); schwere Straftat f (informal synonym); Schwerverbrechen n, Schwerstverbrechen n, Kapitalverbrechen (de) n (informal augmentations)
- Greek: κακούργημα (el) n (kakoúrgima)
- Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע (he) (pésha')
- Hungarian: (súlyos (hu)) bűncselekmény (hu), bűntett (hu)
- Italian: delitto (it) m
- Japanese: 重罪 (ja) (じゅうざい, jūzai)
- Korean: 중죄 (ko) (jungjoe)
- Maori: taihara
- Plautdietsch: Vebräakjen n
- Polish: ciężkie przestępstwo n, zbrodnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: crime grave m
- Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), тя́жкое уголо́вное преступле́ние n (tjážkoje ugolóvnoje prestuplénije), тя́жкое преступле́ние n (tjážkoje prestuplénije), уголо́вное преступле́ние n (ugolóvnoje prestuplénije), фело́ния (ru) f (felónija), фелони́я (ru) f (feloníja)
- Spanish: crimen (es) m, delito (es) m, felonía (es) f (US)
- Swedish: feloni c
- Tagalog: pagkakasala
- Welsh: ffeloniaeth f
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