From en.wiktionary.org:
[Loot]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] Borrowed from [en],<!--not Urdu, per OED--> either from [en] or [sa].
The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting
in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] , good s seize d from an enemy by violence , particularly [en] during the sack ing of a town in war or [en] after successful combat .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1788 | title=Indian Vocabulary | page=77
|passage= LOOT, plunder, pillage.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1839 | journal=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | issue=45 | page=104
|passage=He always found the talismanic gathering-word LOOT (plunder), a
sufficient bond of union in any part of India.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1860 | author=William Howard Russell | title=My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9 | volume=II | page=340
|passage=Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on LOOT, fed on theft,
swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1862 | author=Walter F. Hook | title=Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury | volume=II | page=505
|passage=The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as
their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as LOOT.}}
1. * [en]
2. * 2015 , [Shashi Tharoor] , "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4) :
3. *: India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like [Robert Clive] bought their rotten borough s in England on the proceeds of their LOOT in India while taking the Hindi word " LOOT " into their dictionaries as well as their habits.
4. [en] , the plundering of a city , particularly during war .
5. [en] Any valuable thing receive d for free , especially Christmas present s.
6. * 1956 APRIL 23 , _Life Magazine_ , p. 131 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=SE8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA131) :
7. *: Free LOOT for Children
8. [en] [en] .
9. * [en]
10. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1956 | author=w:Billie Holiday; et al. | title= 吴语: Lady Sings the Blues (book) | page=26
|passage=There was nothing to do except for Mom to go back slaving away as
somebody's maid. In Baltimore she couldn't make half the LOOT she could up
North.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [1=en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Descendants
- [pt]
***** Translations
[slang: money, especially illicitly acquired]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [slang]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] [slang] , [de] [slang]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr] [slang]
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**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] [en] , to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or [en] after successful combat .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1833 | title=The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hbRNAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA66 | page=66
|passage=Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of
LOOTING and murder}}
1. * 1842 May 17, Lord Ellenborough, letter:
2. *: The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘ LOOTING ’ as they call it.
3. * [en]
4. [en] [en] , to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence .
5. * 1851 June 20, Mrs. Hervey, journal:
6. *: He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘ LOOTED him!’
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|lootable|looter|unlooted |when the looting starts, the shooting
starts}}
***** Descendants
- [pt]
***** Translations
[to plunder]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] [Angola] , [pt] [video games]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [slang]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
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*** Etymology 2
Borrowed from [en] or [dum], from reconstructed [en], from Old [en], from
[en], from [en].
Related to [en] and [en], and cognate with [nl], [sco] or [sco], [fy] or [fy],
[gml], and [fr].
**** Alternative forms
- [en] [obsolete]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A scoop used to remove scum from brine pan s in saltwork s.
*** Etymology 3
Clipping.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1898 | author=Finley Peter Dunne | title=Mr. Dooley in Peace & War | page=11
|passage=R-run over an' wake up th' LOOT at th' station.}}
*** References
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 1
From [nl], from [nl], from [nl], related to [gem-pro] and [gem-pro].
**** Noun
[m]
1. a sprout , shoot , stem etc. growing on an existing plant part
2. a descendant , offspring
3. something originating, growing, developing from another
***** Derived terms
- [nl] [to sprout]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 2
[nonlemma]
**** Verb
[nl]
1. [nl]
** Middle Dutch
*** Etymology
From [dum], from [dum].
*** Noun
[head=lôot]
1. lead [metal]
**** Inflection
[lôod]
**** Descendants
[top2]
- [nl]
- [li]
[bottom]
*** Further reading
- [ID99852]
- [26921]
[dum]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt] [pt]. [early 2000's].
*** Pronunciation
[br=lute]
- [pt]
- [pt]
*** Noun
[m] [pt]
1. [en] [goods seized from an enemy after successful combat]
2. * {{ quote-web | pt | title=Localização e preços de itens em Rookgaard | work=Fóruns TibiaBR.com | author=Locke Cole | date=2004-11-06 | url=https://forums.tibiabr.com/threads/7444-Localiza%C3%A7%C3%A3o-e-pre%C3%A7os-de-itens-em-Rookgaard
|text= LOOT (marrom): São os itens que podem ser pegos ao matar algum
monstro.}}
1. * {{ quote-av | pt | author=Eduardo Peixoto | location=Curitiba | date=2022-11-25 | title=DEBULHEI Cyberpunk 2077! Era PODRE, Ficou INCRÍVEL! 100+ Horas de Jogo (VIDEO SEM SPOILERS)😲😲 | publisher=Aperte Start | network=YouTube | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWSazcFrNqs&t=1661s | time=27:41
|text=Cyberpunk tem uma variedade de armas, equipamentos e implantes
gigantesca e, claro, pra equipar o que tem de melhor, o V vai precisar de uma
grana violenta. Fazer LOOT e vender tudo é uma forma de fazer um troco.
|ts=lut͡ʃi}}
1. [en] [any valuable thing received for free]
2. * {{ quote-web | pt | url=https://www.eurogamer.pt/mais-loot-exclusivo-em-fortnite-para-os-subscritores-do-twitch-prime | title=Mais loot exclusivo em Fortnite para os subscritores do Twitch Prime | author=Jorge Loureiro Editor | date=2018-05-09 | work=Eurogamer.pt
|text=O LOOT em questão é um pacote com um fato camuflado, uma picareta, uma
mochila e o emote Freestylin.}}
**** Derived terms
[pt]