Boys Pilfering Molasses, 1853 painting by George Henry Hall.
From earlier pilfre, from Middle English pilfre (“booty”), from Old French pelfre (“plunder, booty, spoils”), of unknown origin. Compare pelf.
pilfer (third-person singular simple present pilfers, present participle pilfering, simple past and past participle pilfered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
to steal in small quantities
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: отмъквам (bg) (otmǎkvam), върша дребни кражби (vǎrša drebni kražbi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 扒竊／扒窃 (zh) (páqiè), 偷竊／偷窃 (zh) (tōuqiè), 小偷小摸 (zh) (xiǎotōuxiǎomō), 東偷西摸／东偷西摸 (dōngtōuxīmō), 偷雞摸狗／偷鸡摸狗 (zh) (tōujīmōgǒu)
- Czech: ukrádat, rozkrádat impf
- Dutch: stelen (nl), jatten (nl)
- Esperanto: ŝteleti
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: näpistää (fi), näpistellä (fi)
- French: piquer (fr), chaparder (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: klauen (de), stehlen (de), stibitzen (de), mopsen (de) (informal), abziehen (de) (juvenile), mausen (de) (rare), mitgehen lassen
- Hungarian: dézsmál (hu), lopkod (hu)
- Ingrian: näpissellä
- Italian: rubacchiare (it)
- Latin: surpō
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: kaiā
- Polish: podkradać (pl)
- Portuguese: surripiar (pt), surrupiar (pt)
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: ворова́ть (ru) impf (vorovátʹ), красть (ru) impf (krastʹ), таска́ть (ru) impf (taskátʹ), раста́скивать (ru) impf (rastáskivatʹ), разворо́вывать (ru) impf (razvoróvyvatʹ)
- Sanskrit: चोरयति (sa) (corayati)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: поткрадати
- Roman: potkradati (sh)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: sisar (es), ratear (es)
- Swedish: snatta (sv)
- Tagalog: mangupit, kumupit
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- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: chwiwladrata
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