maraud

English

WOTD – 17 November 2012

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *marrijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Verb

maraud (third-person singular simple present marauds, present participle marauding, simple past and past participle marauded)

1. (intransitive) To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.

   a marauding band
2. (intransitive) To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
3. (transitive) To raid and pillage.

Usage notes

The verb and adjective are more common as “marauding”.

Translations

intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder

• Catalan: basquejar (ca)
• Dutch: roven (nl)
• Finnish: ryöstellä (fi)
• French: marauder (fr)
• German: marodieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: fosztogat (hu), rabol (hu), portyázik
• Russian: мародёрствовать (ru) (marodjórstvovatʹ), разбо́йничать (ru) (razbójničatʹ)

transitive: to raid and pillage

• Catalan: basquejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掠奪／掠夺 (lüèduó), 掠夺 (zh) (lüèduó)

• Dutch: plunderen (nl)
• Finnish: ryöstellä (fi), ryöstää (fi)
• French: piller (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: plündern (de)
• Hungarian: kifoszt (hu), kirabol (hu)
• Japanese: 略奪する (ja) (りゃくだつする, ryakudatsu suru)
• Russian: гра́бить (ru) (grábitʹ), разоря́ть (ru) (razorjátʹ)
• Spanish: merodear (es)

See also

• marauder

Anagrams

• Madura