different between robbery vs thuggee

English

Etymology

From Middle English robberie, robry, roberie, from Old French roberie, from the verb rober (“to steal; to pillage”) + -ie. Ultimately from unattested Frankish *raub?n. Synchronically analyzable as rob +? -ery. Compare Dutch roverij (“robbery”), Norwegian Bokmål røveri (“robbery”), German Räuberei (“robbery, banditry”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???b??i/, /???b?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???b??i/
• Hyphenation: rob?bery

Noun

robbery (countable and uncountable, plural robberies)

1. The act or practice of robbing.
2. (law) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.

Hypernyms

(attempt of taking the property of another by threat): larceny

Hyponyms

• (attempt of taking the property of another by threat): piracy, armed robbery, aggravated robbery, highway robbery, mugging, carjacking, extortion, stick-up (slang), blagging (slang), steaming (slang), dacoity

Derived terms

Related terms

• rob
• robber

Translations

Middle English

Noun

robbery

1. Alternative form of robberie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ??? / Urdu ????? (?hag?).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????i?/
• (India) IPA^(key): /???.?i?/, /???.?i?/

Noun

thuggee (countable and uncountable, plural thuggees)

1. (historical, countable) A thug (member of band of assassins in India).
2. (historical, uncountable) The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India.
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1070:

     ‘In India, where everything began, this kind of human activity, obscene in itself, was undertaken on behalf of a goddess, called, I think, Kali; the murder was an act of so-called thugee, I was told.’

Related terms

• thug
• thuggism