kidnapping

• kidnaping (US, less common)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/

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kidnapping

1. present participle and gerund of kidnap

kidnapping (countable and uncountable, plural kidnappings)

1. (crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.
   • 2025 March 7, ToI staff, JTA, “The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza”, in The Times of Israel‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 August 2025:

     The Kiryat Malachi native, who had been working as a bartender in Tel Aviv before his kidnapping, was last seen trying to hide next to a car as a terrorist fired a rocket-propelled grenade at him and a friend.

• abduction

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

• IPA^(key): /kid.na.piŋ/

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kidnapping m (plural kidnappings)

1. a kidnapping

• “kidnapping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

• IPA^(key): /kɪdnɑpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

kidnapping f or m (definite singular kidnappinga or kidnappingen, indefinite plural kidnappinger, definite plural kidnappingene)

1. kidnapping

• kidnappe
• kidnapper

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

kidnapping f (definite singular kidnappinga, indefinite plural kidnappingar, definite plural kidnappingane)

1. kidnapping

• kidnappe
• kidnappar

• “kidnapping” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English kidnapping.

• IPA^(key): [kidˈnapiŋ]

kidnapping n (uncountable)

1. (rare) kidnapping

   Synonym: răpire

• “kidnapping”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026