razzia

Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya), equalling Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa, “raid, military campaign”). Doublet of ghazwa.

razzia (plural razzias)

1. A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
   • 1984 April 21, Jorge A., “Getting Together”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     A week ago the police started razzias (raids), and lots of gay and not gay people have been taken to the police department off of the main avenues, bars, (gay and not gay), baths, and restaurants.

Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غزية.

razzia

1. a forceful, (ideally) unannounced operation by a (para-)military organ at suspicion of crime

• “razzia” in Den Danske Ordbog

From earlier razia (1830), gazia (1808), borrowed from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya), classical Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa, “raid, military campaign”). Compare Portuguese gazia.

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• IPA^(key): /ʁa.zja/

razzia f (plural razzias)

1. (military) raid, foray [from early 19th c.]

   Synonyms: incursion, raid

2. (law enforcement) raid, swift operation [from 1840s]

   Synonym: rafle

• razzier

• → Catalan: ràtzia
• → Czech: razie
• → Danish: razzia
• → Dutch: razzia
  • → Indonesian: razia
• → English: razzia
• → Finnish: ratsia
• → German: Razzia
  • → Hungarian: razzia
• → Italian: razzia
• → Portuguese: razia
• → Spanish: razia
• → Swedish: razzia

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

Borrowed from German Razzia, from French razzia.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɒzːijɒ]
• Hyphenation: raz‧zia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

razzia (plural razziák)

1. raid (an attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering)

• razziázik

• razzia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Via French razzia from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya).

razzia f (plural razzie)

1. raid, plundering

   Synonym: saccheggio

• razziare

razzia

1. inflection of razziare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• arazzi

razzia f (plural razzias)

1. Alternative form of razia

Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غزية.

razzia c

1. (law enforcement) raid

   Synonyms: polisrazzia, polisräd, räd

   Polisen utförde en razzia mot klubben

   The police carried out a raid on the club