thief, fraudster, member of the criminal underworld, ganef
çekim: çoğul Ganoven · tamlayan Ganoven
eş: Ganeff
köken: 19th-century back-formation from the plural Ganoven, from Yiddish גנבֿים (ganóvim), itself plural of גנבֿ (gánev, “thief”), whence the dated German form above. Further from Hebrew גַּנָּב (gannāv).
a child or other youth putting on airs and acting arrogantly · a chav, a bogan · a hoodlum, a minor criminal, a hooligan, a punk
köken: Unknown. Appears in texts from the early 1900s. Early uses referred to young pickpockets. May have originally been a compound of ちん (chin, slang prefix indicating “small, little”, sometimes even spelled 小) + 片 (hira, “piece or scrap of paper”).