kidnapping

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

kidnapping

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• kidnaping (US, less common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

kidnapping

1. present participle and gerund of kidnap

Noun

kidnapping (countable and uncountable, plural kidnappings)

1. (crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.

Derived terms

• antikidnapping
• bridenapping
• carnapping
• catnapping
• dognapping
• express kidnapping
• gnome-napping
• slavenapping
• tiger kidnapping

Translations

the crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom

Albanian: rrëmbim (sq) m Arabic: اِخْتِطَاف m (iḵtiṭāf) Armenian: առեւանգում (hy) (aṙewangum) Belarusian: выкрада́нне n (vykradánnje) Bulgarian: отвли́чане n (otvlíčane), похище́ние (bg) n (pohišténie) Catalan: segrest (ca) m 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 Danish: kidnapning c, bortførelse c, bortførsel c Dutch: gijzeling (nl) f Esperanto: homforkapto Estonian: inimrööv Finnish: ihmisryöstö (fi), sieppaus (fi) French: enlèvement (fr), kidnapping (fr), rapt (fr) m Georgian: მოტაცება (moṭaceba) German: Entführung (de) f, Menschenraub m, Kinderraub m, Kidnapping (de) n Greek: απαγωγή (el) f (apagogí) Ancient: ἀνδραποδισμός m (andrapodismós), ἀπαγωγή f (apagōgḗ) Hebrew: חֲטִיפָה f (ḥatifa) Hindi: अपहरण (hi) m (apahraṇ) Hungarian: emberrablás (hu) Icelandic: mannrán (is) n Italian: sequestro (it) m Japanese: 誘拐 (ja) (ゆうかい, yūkai), 拉致 (ja) (らち, rachi) Khmer: មនុស្សគ្រាស (mĕəʼnuhsaʼkriəh) Korean: 납치(拉致) (ko) (napchi), 랍치(拉致) (ko) (rapchi) (North Korea), 유괴(誘拐) (ko) (yugoe) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: revandin (ku) f Lao: ການລັກພາຕົວ (kān lak phā tūa) Latin: plagium n Latvian: nolaupīšana f Lithuanian: pagrobimas m Macedonian: киднапи́рање n (kidnapíranje) Malay: penculikan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: kidnapping m or f Nynorsk: kidnapping f Persian: آدم‌ربایی (âdam-robâyi) Polish: porwanie (pl) n Portuguese: sequestro (pt) m, rapto (pt) m Romanian: răpire (ro) f Russian: похище́ние (ru) n (poxiščénije), киднэ́ппинг (ru) m (kidnɛ́pping), кидне́ппинг (ru) m (kidnɛ́pping) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀тмица f Roman: òtmica (sh) f Slovak: únos m Slovene: ugrabitev (sl) f Spanish: secuestro (es) m Swahili: utekaji nyara Swedish: kidnappning (sv) c Thai: การลักพาตัว, ลักพาตัว (th) (lák-paa-dtuua) Turkish: adam kaçırma Ukrainian: ви́крадення n (výkradennja), викрада́ння n (vykradánnja) Vietnamese: sự bắt cóc (vi) Yoruba: ìjínigbé, ìwà sùnmọ̀mí, ìwà gbọ́mọgbọ́mọ (of a child)

See also

• abduction

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid.na.piŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Noun

kidnapping m (plural kidnappings)

1. a kidnapping

Further reading

• “kidnapping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

kidnapping

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪdnɑpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Noun

kidnapping f or m (definite singular kidnappinga or kidnappingen, indefinite plural kidnappinger, definite plural kidnappingene)

1. kidnapping

Related terms

• kidnappe
• kidnapper

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

Noun

kidnapping f (definite singular kidnappinga, indefinite plural kidnappingar, definite plural kidnappingane)

1. kidnapping

Related terms

• kidnappe
• kidnappar

References

• “kidnapping” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kidˈnapiŋ]

Noun

kidnapping n (uncountable)

1. (rare) kidnapping

   Synonym: răpire

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	kidnapping	kidnapping-ul
genitive-dative	kidnapping	kidnapping-ului
vocative	kidnapping-ule

References

• “kidnapping”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025