piraat

Borrowed from Middle French pirate, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈraːt/

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• Hyphenation: pi‧raat
• Rhymes: -aːt

piraat m (plural piraten, diminutive piraatje n)

1. a pirate, one who plunders at sea

   Synonyms: boekanier, kaper, korsaar, vrijbuiter, zeerover, zeeschuimer

2. a copyright pirate, who produces/ trades in illegal copies of protected products
3. a radio pirate

   Synonyms: etherpiraat, zendpiraat

From Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτής (peirātḗs), from πεῖρᾰ (peîră, “trial, attempt, plot”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈrɑːt/, [piˈrɑːtˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːt
• Hyphenation: pi‧raat

piraat (genitive piraadi, partitive piraati)

1. pirate (someone who plunders at sea)

   Synonym: mereröövel

2. (by extension) pirate (someone who breaks intellectual property laws)

• piraat in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “piraat”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “piraat”, in [VSL] Võõrsõnade leksikon [Lexicon of Foreign Words] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012