dacoit

== English == === Alternative forms === dacoo, dakoit, dakoo, decoit === Etymology === Borrowed from Hindustani ڈکیت / डकैत (ḍakait), from ڈاکا (ḍākā) / डाका (ḍākā, “gang-robbery”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dəˈkɔɪt/ Rhymes: -ɔɪt === Noun === dacoit (plural dacoits) (chiefly India, Pakistan, Myanmar) A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India. 1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, [1] […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts. ==== Derived terms ==== dacoitage dacoity ==== Translations ==== === Verb === dacoit (third-person singular simple present dacoits, present participle dacoiting, simple past and past participle dacoited) (chiefly India) To commit armed robbery. === References === “dacoit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.