jmdict 1599340 Active (id#2335993)
泥棒 [ichi1,news1,nf15] ； 泥坊 [rK]
【 どろぼう [ichi1,news1,nf15] ； ドロボー [sk] ； どろぼー [sk] 】
  1. [n]
    • thief
    • burglar
    • robber
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 1436900 泥【どろ】 2. thief
  2. [n,vs,vt]
    • theft
    • burglary
    • robbery
Conjugations
History:
    • A 2025-04-02 04:33:25 Stephen Kraus (id#2335993)
    • Comments
      ドロボー can be hidden too.
    • Diff
      @@ -22 +22 @@
-<re_nokanji/>
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
    • A 2022-12-12 21:55:01 Jim Breen (id#2215541)
    • A* 2022-12-12 20:14:44 Stephen Kraus (id#2215533)
    • Refs
      [vt]: shinmeikai, meikyo, etc.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 泥棒　　 │ 1,206,051 │ 83.6% │
│ 泥坊　　 │     2,253 │  0.2% │ 🡠 rK (daijr/s, koj, etc.)
│ どろぼう │   146,287 │ 10.1% │
│ ドロボー │    82,360 │  5.7% │
│ どろぼー │     5,408 │  0.4% │ 🡠 sk
╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -25 +26 @@
-<re_nokanji/>
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
@@ -35,0 +37 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
    • A 2018-05-26 03:14:28 Jim Breen
    • Refs
      ルミナス
    • A* 2018-05-25 12:27:57 Robin Scott
    • Comments
      I think this is better as two senses.
    • Diff
      @@ -29 +28,0 @@
-<pos>&vs;</pos>
@@ -32,0 +32,4 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
@@ -33,0 +37,2 @@
+<gloss>burglary</gloss>
+<gloss>robbery</gloss>
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