kidnap

English

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Etymology

From kid +‎ nap (“to nab; to grab”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪdnæp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

kidnap (third-person singular simple present kidnaps, present participle kidnapping or kidnaping, simple past and past participle kidnapped or kidnaped)

1. (transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom. [from 17th c.]
   • 2002 September 6, Michelle and Robert Lamoreaux, “Model Citizens”, in Totally Spies!‎, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Jess Harnell as Jerry and Katie Leigh), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

     Hello, ladies! How’s the Big Apple?
     Rotten, Jerry! Clover's been kidnapped!
     Oh, dear! That's the second time this month!

   • 2025 March 7, ToI staff, JTA, “The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza”, in The Times of Israel:

     Angrest, a soldier, was kidnapped from his tank at the Nahal Oz base when it was attacked by Hamas.

Derived terms

• antikidnap
• dognap
• dognapper
• dognapping
• kidnappable
• kidnapped robot problem
• rekidnap
• tiger kidnap
• unkidnap

Translations

to seize and detain a person unlawfully

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: اِخْتَطَفَ (ar) (iḵtaṭafa) Hijazi Arabic: اختطف (aḵtaṭaf), خَطَف (ḵaṭaf) Armenian: առեւանգել (hy) (aṙewangel) Aromanian: arachiu, arãchescu Azerbaijani: qaçırmaq (az) Belarusian: выкрада́ць impf (vykradácʹ), вы́красці pf (výkrasci) Bulgarian: похищавам (bg) impf (pohištavam), отвличам (bg) (otvličam) Burmese: ပြန်ပေးဆွဲ (my) (pranpe:hcwai:) Catalan: segrestar (ca), raptar (ca) (with sexual intent) Chinese: Cantonese: 標參 / 标参 (biu1 sam1) Mandarin: 綁架 / 绑架 (zh) (bǎngjià), 綁票 / 绑票 (zh) (bǎngpiào), 拐帶 / 拐带 (zh) (guǎidài) Cornish: denladra Czech: unést (cs) Danish: bortføre (da), kidnappe Dutch: ontvoeren (nl), kidnappen (nl) Esperanto: forkapti Estonian: röövima Finnish: kidnapata (fi), kaapata (fi), siepata (fi) French: enlever (fr), kidnapper (fr), ravir (fr) Georgian: მოტაცება (moṭaceba) German: entführen (de) Greek: απάγω (el) (apágo) Ancient: ἀπάγω (apágō) Hebrew: חטף (he) (ḥataf) Hindi: अपहरण करना (apahraṇ karnā) Hungarian: elrabol (hu), embert rabol Icelandic: ræna (is) Ido: kidnapar (io), raptar (io) Indonesian: menculik (id) Interlingua: sequestrar Italian: rapire (it), sequestrare (it) Japanese: 誘拐する (ja) (ゆうかいする, yūkai suru), 攫う (ja) (さらう, sarau), 拉致る (ja) (slang) Khiamniungan Naga: thōhlǖkhúa Khmer: ចាប់ជំរិត (capcumrɨt) Korean: 채가다 (chaegada), 훔치다 (ko) (humchida), 납치하다 (ko) (napchihada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕفاندن (rfandin) Lao: ລັກພາຕົວ (lak phā tūa) Latin: raptō, rapiō Latvian: nolaupīšana f Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: киднапи́ра impf or pf (kidnapíra) Maltese: ħataf Maori: mautāhae, tipua, tupua Norman: enlever Norwegian: kidnappe Old English: forstelan Persian: آدم‌ربای کردن (âdam-robâye kardan) Polish: porywać (pl) impf, porwać (pl) pf, uprowadzać (pl) impf, uprowadzić (pl) pf Portuguese: sequestrar (pt), raptar (pt) Romanian: răpi (ro) Russian: похища́ть (ru) impf (poxiščátʹ), похи́тить (ru) pf (poxítitʹ), красть (ru) impf (krastʹ), укра́сть (ru) pf (ukrástʹ), выкра́дывать (ru) impf (vykrádyvatʹ), вы́красть (ru) pf (výkrastʹ), ворова́ть (ru) impf (vorovátʹ), сворова́ть (ru) pf (svorovátʹ) Sardinian: arpiài Serbo-Croatian: oteti (sh) Slovak: uniesť pf Spanish: secuestrar (es), raptar (es) (with sexual connotation) Swahili: teka nyara (sw) Swedish: kidnappa (sv) Thai: ลักพาตัว (th) (lák-paa-dtuua) Tibetan: ཇག་ཁྲིད་བྱས (jag khrid byas) Turkish: kaçırmak (tr) Ukrainian: викрада́ти impf (vykradáty), ви́красти pf (výkrasty) Vietnamese: bắt cóc (vi) Yiddish: אַוועקכאַפּן (avekkhapn) Yoruba: jínigbé, jígbé, jímọ (kidnap a child)

Noun

kidnap (countable and uncountable, plural kidnaps)

1. The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.

Related terms

• kidnapper, kidnaper
• kidnappee, kidnapee

Translations

an instance of kidnapping

Bulgarian: отвличане n (otvličane), похищение (bg) n (pohištenie) Catalan: segrest (ca), rapte (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 綁架 / 绑架 (zh) (bǎngjià), 誘拐 / 诱拐 (zh) (yòuguǎi), 拐騙 / 拐骗 (zh) (guǎipiàn), 綁票 / 绑票 (zh) (bǎngpiào) Czech: únos (cs) m Dutch: ontvoering (nl) f Finnish: kidnappaus (fi), sieppaus (fi) French: enlèvement (fr) m, kidnapping (fr) m, rapt (fr) m German: Entführung (de) f, Menschenraub m, Kinderraub m Hebrew: חטיפה (ḥatifa) Hindi: अपहरण (hi) m (apahraṇ) Hungarian: emberrablás (hu) Ido: rapto (io) Indonesian: penculikan (id) Interlingua: sequestro Irish: fuadach m Italian: sequestro (it), rapimento (it) Japanese: 誘拐 (ja) (ゆうかい, yūkai), 拉致 (ja) (らち, rachi) Korean: 납치(拉致) (ko) (napchi) Latvian: nolaupīt Polish: porwanie (pl) n, uprowadzenie (pl) n Portuguese: sequestro (pt) Russian: похище́ние (ru) n (poxiščénije) Serbo-Croatian: otmica (sh) f Spanish: secuestro (es), rapto (es) Swedish: kidnappning (sv) c Tagalog: kidnap (tl), dukot Vietnamese: sự bắt cóc (vi)

Anagrams

• ink pad, ink-pad, inkpad

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

kidnap

1. inflection of kidnappen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English kidnap.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkidnap/ [ˈkid̪.n̪ɐp̚]
• Rhymes: -idnap
• Syllabification: kid‧nap

Noun

kidnap (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜇ᜔ᜈᜉ᜔)

1. kidnap

   Synonym: dukot

Derived terms

• kidnapin
• kumidnap
• makidnap
• mangingidnap
• pangingidnap

Related terms

• kidnaper
• kidnaping

See also

• agaw
• gabot

Further reading

• “kidnap”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “kidnap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018