maraud

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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈɹɔːd/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /məˈɹoːd/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• /məˈɹɔd/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /məˈɹɑd/
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• Scotland: /məˈɾɔd/
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• Wales: /məˈɾɔːd/
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• rhymes with -ɔːd
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• CMU ARPABET: M ER0 AO1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Frankish *marʀijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + Old French suffix -ault, -aud. Cognate with Old High German marrjan, marren (“to obstruct, hinder”), Old Saxon merrian (“to hinder, waste”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to offend”). Related to mar.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: мародерствам (maroderstvam) — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Catalan: basquejar — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Dutch: roven — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Finnish: ryöstellä — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• French: marauder — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• German: marodieren — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Hungarian: fosztogat — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Hungarian: rabol — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Hungarian: portyázik — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Ido: marodar — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Polish: grasować — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Russian: мародёрствовать (marodjórstvovatʹ) — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Russian: разбо́йничать (razbójničatʹ) — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Spanish: merodear — intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder
• Bulgarian: ограбвам (ograbvam) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Catalan: basquejar — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Chinese Mandarin: 掠奪 /掠夺 (lüèduó) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Dutch: plunderen — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Esperanto: marodi — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Finnish: ryöstellä — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Finnish: ryöstää — transitive: to raid and pillage
• French: piller — transitive: to raid and pillage
• German: plündern — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Hungarian: kifoszt — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Hungarian: kirabol — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Ido: marodar — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Japanese: 略奪する (ryakudatsu suru) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Macedonian: гра́би (grábi) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Macedonian: гра́ба (grába) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Macedonian: пља́чка (pljáčka) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Māori: pāhuahua — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Russian: гра́бить (grábitʹ) — transitive: to raid and pillage
• Russian: разоря́ть (razorjátʹ) — transitive: to raid and pillage