different between burgle vs burglar

English

Etymology

Back-formation from burglar (1867)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b????l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??l

Verb

burgle (third-person singular simple present burgles, present participle burgling, simple past and past participle burgled)

1. (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand) To commit burglary. [from 1867]

   Synonym: burglarize
2. (Britain, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.

Related terms

• burglar
• burglary
• breaking and entering

Translations

See also

• rob
• steal
• thieve
• purloin

Anagrams

• Bugler, Bulger, Elburg, Gubler, bugler, bulger

English

Etymology

Middle English, shortened from burgulator, from British Medieval Latin burgl?tor, from Old French burgeor (“burglar”), from Medieval Latin burg?tor (“burglar”), from burg? (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgij? (“borough, watch-tower”). The -l- may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b???l?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??l?/, [?b??l?]

Noun

burglar (plural burglars)

1. A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft

Related terms

Translations

Verb

burglar (third-person singular simple present burglars, present participle burglaring, simple past and past participle burglared)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To commit burglary; to burgle.
   • 1901, Emma Orczy, The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace

     The latter, with another constable, remained to watch the burglared premises both back and front, […]

See also

• robber
• thief