different between loot vs takings

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: lute (in accents with yod-dropping)

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loet, loete ("scoop, shovel, scraper"; > Modern Dutch loet), from Old Dutch *l?ta, from Old Frankish *l?tija (“scoop, ladle”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?þþij? (“ladle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh?- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”). Cognate with Scots lute, luyt (“scoop, ladle”), West Frisian loete, lete, Middle Low German l?te (“rake”), French louche ("ladle"; < Germanic). Related to lade, ladle.

Alternative forms

• lute

Noun

loot (plural loots)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

Etymology 2

Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani ??? (l??)/???? (l??, “spoil, booty”), from Sanskrit ?????? (lu??, “to rob, plunder”).The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian".

In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare.

A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

Noun

loot (uncountable)

1. The act of plundering.

   the loot of an ancient city

2. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
3. (colloquial, US) Any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
   • 1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956, p. 131)
4. (video games) Items dropped by defeated enemies.

Synonyms

• (plunder): See Thesaurus:booty

See also

• contraband
• manubial
• plunder

Translations

Verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

1. (transitive) To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.

   to loot valuables from a temple

   • 1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen, p. 66.
2. (intransitive) To steal from.

   to loot a temple for valuables

3. (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

Translations

References

• Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885).

Anagrams

• LOTO, OOTL, loto, tool

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?t/
• Hyphenation: loot
• Rhymes: -o?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lote.

Noun

loot m (plural loten, diminutive lootje n)

1. A sprout, shoot, stem etc. growing on an existing plant part

   Synonym: scheut

2. A descendant, offspring.
3. Something originating, growing, developing from another.

Derived terms

• loten (to sprout)
• waterloot

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loot

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of loten
2. imperative of loten

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *l?t, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Noun

lôot n

1. lead (metal)

   Synonym: bli

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

• “loot”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “loot (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

English

Noun

takings

1. plural of taking

Anagrams

• Gitksan, skating, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, tasking