curi

See also: curí, ĉuri, čúṛi, and çuri

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈku.ɾi]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Etymology 1

Chemical element
Cm
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Next: berkeli (Bk)

Noun

curi m (uncountable)

1. curium

Etymology 2

Verb

curi

1. inflection of curar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• cuir

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽìː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃúː.ɽìː]

Noun

cūrī̀ m (possessed form cūrìn)

1. ball of food
2. verbal noun of cura

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay curi, from Hindi चोरी (corī, “thief”), from Sanskrit चोर (cora, “thief, robber”) with the root चुर् (cur, “to steal, rob”). Cognate of Javanese ꦕꦺꦴꦫꦃ (corah, “thief, bandit; bad person”), Old Javanese corah, cora (“thief, robber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃu.ri/

• Audio:

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Verb

mencuri

1. to steal (to illegally take possession of)

Conjugation

Conjugation of curi (meng-, transitive)

root	curi
	active	involuntary	passive	basic / imperative	emphatic / jussive
active	mencuri		dicuri	curi	curilah
locative
causative / applicative1	mencurikan		dicurikan	curikan	curikanlah
	causative
active
locative
causative / applicative1

¹ The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• curian
• kecurian
• ketercurian
• mencuri
• mencuri-curi
• pencuri
• pencurian
• tercuri

Related terms

• bramacorah

Further reading

• “curi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ri/
• Rhymes: -uri
• Hyphenation: cù‧ri

Verb

curi

1. inflection of curare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Malay

Etymology

From Hindi चुराना (curānā).

Verb

curi

1. to steal (to illegally take possession of)

Derived terms

• curi ayam (to be lazy)
• mencuri
• pencuri

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kurʲ]
• Rhymes: -i

Verb

curi

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cura (to clean)

Anagrams

• uric, ciur, Ciur

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

curi (Cyrillic spelling цури)

1. dative/locative singular of cura

Anagrams

• ruci

Vietnamese

Chemical element
Cm
Previous: amerixi (Am)
Next: beckeli (Bk)

Etymology

Ultimately from New Latin curium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ku˧˧ ɹi˧˧] ~ [ku˧˧ zi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧ ɹɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧ ɹɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: cu Ri

Noun

curi

1. curium