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).
people, mainly young, who engage in antisocial behaviour; rabble, riffraff; rascals
çekim: çoğul racailles
eş: caille, caillera
köken: Inherited from Old French rascaille (“outcast, rabble”), perhaps from rasque (“mud, filth, scab, dregs”), from Vulgar Latin *rasicō (“to scrape”). Cognate with English rascal.
resident: Monsieur Sarkozy, est-ce que vous pouvez nous débarrasser de cette racaille ?
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”).