crime

English

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɹaɪm/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
Crime doesn’t pay.
(uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
- Alexander Pope
  No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.
(obsolete) That which occasions crime.
- Spenser
  the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

Usage notes

Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

Synonyms

(criminal acts collectively): delinquency, crime rate, criminality

Hyponyms

war crime
white collar crime
crime against humanity
crime against nature
criminal act
felony
hate crime
international crime
misdemeanor
offence
organised crime
organized crime
petty crime
regulatory offence
sexual offence
summary crime

Derived terms

Related terms

crime index
crime mapping
crime rate
criminal law
criminal record

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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/recriminate' title='recriminate'>recriminate</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/recrimination' title='recrimination'>recrimination</a>

Translations

act violating the law

Afrikaans: misdryf
Albanian: krim (sq)
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: جَرِيمَة‎ f (jarīma), جِنَايَة‎ f (jināya)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: հանցանք (hy) (hancʿankʿ)
Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: delitu m
Azerbaijani: cinayət (az)
Bashkir: енәйәт (yenäyät)
Basque: delitua
Belarusian: злачы́нства n (zlačýnstva), злачы́н m (zlačýn)
Bengali: অপরাধ (bn) (ôpôradh)
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: престъпле́ние (bg) n (prestǎplénie)
Burmese: ပြစ်မှု (my) (prachmu.)
Catalan: crim (ca) m, delicte (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏅᏨ (asganvtsv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罪 (zh) (zuì), 罪行 (zh) (zuìxíng), 刑事犯罪 (xíngshì fànzuì), 犯罪 (zh) (fànzuì)
Corsican: please add this translation if you can
Czech: zločin (cs) m, trestný čin (cs) m
Danish: forbrydelse (da) c
Dutch: misdaad (nl) f
Esperanto: krimo
Estonian: kuritegu
Faroese: brotsgerð f
Finnish: rikos (fi)
French: délit (fr) m(max 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (15 years and more) (nothing strictly between 10 and 15)
Friulian: criminâl m
Galician: delito m, malfeito m
Georgian: დანაშაული (današauli)
German: Straftat (de) f
Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima), αδίκημα (el) n (adíkima) (law)
Gujarati: અપરાધ n (aparādha)
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: kalaima
Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע‎ (he) m (pésha')
Hindi: अपराध (hi) m (aprādh)
Hungarian: bűntény (hu), bűntett (hu), bűncselekmény (hu)
Icelandic: glæpur (is) m
Ido: krimino (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: kejahatan (id), pelanggaran (id), pelanggaran hukum
Interlingua: crimine
Interlingue: crímine (ie)
Irish: coir (ga) f, cion m
Italian: crimine (it) m, delitto (it) m, reato (it) m
Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi), 犯行 (はんこう, hankō)
Javanese: angkara
Kannada: ಅಪರಾಧ (kn) (aparādha), ತಕ್ಸೀರು (kn) (taksīru)
Kazakh: қылмыс (kk) (qılmıs)
Khmer: បទឧក្រិដ្ឋ (bɑtʾokrət), ទោស (km) (tooh)
Korean: 범죄 (ko) (beomjoe) (犯罪 (ko))
Kyrgyz: кылмыш (ky) (kılmış)
Ladin: reat m
Lao: ອາດຊະຍາກຳ (’āt sa nyā kam), ກຳມະໂທດ (kam ma thōt)
Latin: scelus n, facinus n, maleficium n
Latvian: noziegšanās m, noziegums m
Lithuanian: nusikaltimas (lt) m, nusižengimas m
Luxembourgish: Verbriechen
Macedonian: злосторство n (zlostorstvo), злодело n (zlodelo), недело m (nedelo)

Malay: jenayah
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: reat
Manx: loght m
Maori: hara, māhie, taihara
Marathi: बदकर्म m (badkarma)
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: гэмт хэрэг (mn) (gemt hereg)
Norman: crînme m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forbrytelse (no)
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: delicte m
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: جنايت‎ (ps) m (ǰenāyát)
Persian: جرم‎ (fa) (jorm), بزه‎ (fa) (bezeh), جنایت‎ (fa) (jenâyat)
Polish: przestępstwo (pl) n, zbrodnia (pl) f
Portuguese: crime (pt) m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: infracțiune (ro), crimă (ro) f
Romansch: crim m
Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), злодея́ние (ru) n (zlodejánije), злоде́йство (ru) n (zlodéjstvo)
Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
Scots: crime, wrang-daein
Scottish Gaelic: eucoir f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зло̀чин m

Roman: zlòčin (sh) m
Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: අපරාධය (aparādhaya)
Slovak: zločin m
Slovene: zločin (sl) m
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: delito (es) m, crimen (es) m
Swahili: uhalifu (sw)
Swedish: brott (sv) n
Tagalog: krimen
Tajik: ҷиноят (jinoyat)
Tamil: குற்றம் (ta) (kuṟṟam)
Tatar: җинаять (tt) (cinayat’)
Telugu: నేరము (te) (nēramu)
Thai: อาชญากรรม (th) (àat-yaa-gam)
Turkish: suç (tr), cinayet (tr)
Turkmen: jenaýat (tk)
Tuvan: кем-херек (käm-häräk)
Ukrainian: зло́чин (uk) m (zlóčyn)
Urdu: اپرادھ‎ m (aprādh)
Uyghur: جىنايەت‎ (jinayet)
Uzbek: jinoyat (uz)
Vietnamese: tội ác (vi), tội phạm (vi) (罪犯)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: crime (wa) m
Welsh: trosedd (cy) m
West Frisian: misdied
White Hmong: txhaum
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: פֿאַרברעך‎ n (farbrekh), פֿאַרברעכן‎ n (farbrekhn)
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: iseleleso

practice or habit of committing crimes

Arabic: جَرِيمَة‎ f (jarīma)
Armenian: հանցավորություն (hy) (hancʿavorutʿyun)
Catalan: crim (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罪行 (zh) (zuìxíng)
Czech: zločinnost f
Danish: kriminalitet c
Dutch: misdaad (nl) f
Esperanto: krimado
Estonian: kuritegevus
Finnish: rikollisuus (fi), rikos (fi)
French: délit (fr) m(under 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (10 years and more)
German: Verbrechen (de) n
Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima)
Hebrew: פשע‎ (he) m (pesha)
Hungarian: bűnözés (hu)
Italian: criminalità (it) f
Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi)

Korean: 범죄 (ko) (beomjoe) (犯罪 (ko))
Kurdish:
Sorani: جه‌ریمه‌‎ (ku) (cerîme)
Macedonian: злосторство n (zlostorstvo)
Maltese: kriminalità f
Norman: crînme m
Norwegian: kriminalitet (no) m
Portuguese: crime (pt) m, criminalidade (pt) f
Romanian: criminalitate (ro) f
Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), престу́пность (ru) n (prestúpnostʹ), кримина́л (ru) m (kriminál)
Scottish Gaelic: eucoireachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зло̀чин m

Roman: zlòčin (sh) m
Slovene: zločin (sl) m
Spanish: delincuencia (es) f
Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c

collective criminal acts

Finnish: rikollisuus (fi)
German: Kriminalität (de) f
Greek: εγκληματικότητα (el) f (egklimatikótita)
Romanian: delicvență (ro) f

Serbo-Croatian: криминал m
Spanish: delincuencia (es) f, criminalidad f
Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c, kriminalitet (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: délit (fr) m(under 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (10 years and more) (1, 2)
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} פשע‎ (he) m
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kejahatan (id)
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} nusikaltimas (lt) m
Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} കുറ്റം (ml) (kuṟṟaṃ), ^{(please verify)} കുറ്റകൃത്യം (kuṟṟakr̥tyaṃ)

Manchu: ^{(please verify)} weile (weile)
Persian: ^{(please verify)} بزه‎ (fa) (bezeh), ^{(please verify)} جرم‎ (fa) (jorm)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} infracțiune (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} delict (ro) n
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} నేరప్రవృత్తి (nērapravr̥tti)
Turkish: suç [çu]

References

crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

(nonstandard, rare) To commit crime(s).
- 1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side →ISBN, page 61:
  If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

Anagrams

REMIC, merci

French

Etymology

From Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kʁim/
audio (file)
Rhymes: -im

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

crime (15 years and more according to law)
Le crime ne paie pas.
murder, homicide

Related terms

Anagrams

cimer
merci

Middle English

Noun

crime

Alternative form of cryme

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crime, from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.mi/
(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimɨ/

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

crime
O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.
The thief committed a terrible crime.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:crime.

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crime

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