# razzia
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya), equalling Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa, “raid, military campaign”). Doublet of ghazwa.

### Noun

razzia (plural razzias)
* A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
** 1984 April 21, Jorge A., “Getting Together”, in Gay Community News, page 5:A week ago the police started razzias (raids), and lots of gay and not gay people have been taken to the police department off of the main avenues, bars, (gay and not gay), baths, and restaurants.

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غزية.

### Noun

razzia
* a forceful, (ideally) unannounced operation by a (para-)military organ at suspicion of crime

#### Declension
### References

* “razzia” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French razzia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɑ.zi.aː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

razzia f (plural razzia's, diminutive razziaatje n)
* razzia, raid

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: razia

### Further reading

* razzia on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Etymology

From earlier razia (1830), gazia (1808), borrowed from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya), classical Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa, “raid, military campaign”). Compare Portuguese gazia.
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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁa.zja/

### Noun

razzia f (plural razzias)
* (military) raid, foray [from early 19th c.]
    Synonyms: incursion, raid
* (law enforcement) raid, swift operation [from 1840s]
    Synonym: rafle

#### Derived terms

* razzier

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: ràtzia
* → Czech: razie
* → Danish: razzia
* → Dutch: razzia
** → Indonesian: razia
* → English: razzia
* → Finnish: ratsia
* → German: Razzia
** → Hungarian: razzia
* → Italian: razzia
* → Portuguese: razia
* → Spanish: razia
* → Swedish: razzia

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Razzia, from French razzia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrɒzːijɒ]
* Hyphenation: raz‧zia
* Rhymes: -jɒ

### Noun

razzia (plural razziák)
* raid (an attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering)

#### Derived terms

* razziázik

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* razzia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Via French razzia from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya).

#### Noun

razzia f (plural razzie)
* raid, plundering
    Synonym: saccheggio

##### Derived terms

* razziare

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

razzia
* inflection of razziare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* arazzi

## Spanish
### Noun

razzia f (plural razzias)
* Alternative form of razia

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غزية.

### Noun

razzia c
* (law enforcement) raid
    Synonyms: polisrazzia, polisräd, räd
    Polisen utförde en razzia mot klubbenThe police carried out a raid on the club

#### Derived terms

* knarkrazzia
* narkotikarazzia
* polisrazzia
* skatterazzia

### Further reading

* razzia in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker