# maraud
## English
### Etymology

From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Frankish *marʀijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + Old French suffix -ault, -aud. Cognate with Old High German marrjan, marren (“to obstruct, hinder”), Old Saxon merrian (“to hinder, waste”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to offend”). Related to mar.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /məˈɹɔːd/
* (US) IPA: /məˈɹɔd/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /mɘˈɹoːd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːd, -oːd

### Verb

maraud (third-person singular simple present marauds, present participle marauding, simple past and past participle marauded)
* (intransitive) To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
    a marauding band
** 1684, Thomas Otway, The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway‎, volume 2, London: Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington, published 1728, The Atheist; or the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune, page 88:Peace Plunder, Peace, you Rogue; no Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.
** 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, no. 90-505‎, volume 3, London: Thomas Tickell, published 1721, page 115:[…] in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding, and made them all prisoners at discretion.
* (intransitive) To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
** 1770, “Fables for Grown Gentlemen”, in Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature‎, volume 29, London: A. Hamilton, page 73:A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner.
* (transitive) To raid and pillage.
** 1829, Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: In Two Volumes‎, volume 1, Paris: Baudry, at the Foreign Library, pages 118–9:As the tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day.

#### Usage notes

The verb and adjective are more common as marauding.

#### Translations
### See also

* marauder

### Anagrams

* Madura, damaru, daruma

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French *marault, see maraud.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ʁo/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

maraud m (plural marauds, feminine maraude)
* (dated, derogatory) rogue
    Synonyms: coquin, drôle
** 1838, Alfred de Musset, Margot‎:—O ma chère Ursule! s’écriait madame Doradour, ma toute bonne, où êtes-vous? Vous me chasseriez ces marauds-là!(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1843, George Sand, “Septième rencontre”, in Kourroglou‎:«Oh non! c’est bien assez!» il revient vers ses compagnons, et Daly-Hassan, qui l’attend au pied de la montagne en léchant ses moustaches comme un tigre qui a soif, lui demande la permission d’essayer le tranchant de son sabre sur ces marauds, afin de leur arracher quelques barils de vin par-dessus le marché.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* marauder

#### Descendants

* → German: marode
** → Czech: marod
** → Polish: maruda

### Further reading

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