Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
- 1.2.1 Derived terms
- 1.2.2 Translations
- 1.3 Verb
- 1.4 Further reading
English
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Etymology
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Noun
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eavesdropping (countable and uncountable, plural eavesdroppings)
- verbal noun of eavesdrop:
- Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!, →OL:
The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
- (telecommunications) The interception of electronic communication.
- (zoology) The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.
- Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
Derived terms
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Translations
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listening secretly to the private conversations of others
- Chinese:
- Finnish: salakuuntelu(fi)
- German: Lauschenn, Abhören(de)n
- Greek: κρυφάκουσμα(el)n (kryfákousma), λαθρακρόασηf (lathrakróasi), ωτακουστίαf (otakoustía)
- Hungarian: hallgatózás(hu)
- Italian: origliamentom, l'origliarem, ascolto di nascostom
- Japanese: 盗聴(ja) (とうちょう, tōchō)
- Korean: 엿듣다 (yeotdeutda) (verb)
- Persian: استراق سمع(fa) (esterâq-e sam')
- Polish: podsłuchiwanie(pl)n, podsłuchanie(pl)n
- Romanian: trage cu urechea
- Russian: подслу́шивание(ru)n (podslúšivanije)
- Scottish Gaelic: farchluais
- Serbo-Croatian: prisluškivanje(sh)n, прислушкивањеn
- Swedish: tjuvlyssningc
- Ukrainian: підслухо́вуванняn (pidsluxóvuvannja), підслу́хуванняn (pidslúxuvannja), прослухо́вуванняn (prosluxóvuvannja)
interception of electronic communication
- Chinese:
- Finnish: salakuuntelu(fi)
- French: écoute clandestinef
- German: Abhören(de)n
- Italian: intercettazione telefonicaf, intercettazione comuncazionif
- Japanese: 盗聴(ja) (とうちょう, tōchō)
- Korean: 도청(盜聽)(ko) (docheong)
- Persian: استراق سمع(fa) (esterâq-e sam')
- Polish: podsłuchiwanie(pl)n, podsłuch(pl)m
- Romanian: interceptare(ro)
- Russian: подслу́шивание(ru)n (podslúšivanije), перехва́т(ru)m (perexvát), прослу́шка(ru)f (proslúška) (colloquial)
- Serbo-Croatian: prisluškivanje(sh)n, прислушкивањеn
- Swedish: avlyssning(sv)c
Verb
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eavesdropping
- present participle and gerund of eavesdrop
Further reading
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eavesdropping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
