Mundraub
German, noun/ˈmʊntˌraʊ̯p/
Mundraub is spelled M-U-N-D-R-A-U-B (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 174,963rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mundraub is a German masculine noun meaning “theft of food for immediate consumption, which in some jurisdictions is treated as a privileged form of theft (in Germany until 1975 and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Diebstahl kleiner Mengen Nahrungsmittel oder anderer lebensnotwendiger Dinge für den dringenden Eigenbedarf”.
What does Mundraub mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinetheft of food for immediate consumption, which in some jurisdictions is treated as a privileged form of theft (in Germany until 1975 and termed then by jurists Verbrauchsmittelentwendung and currently titled in Austria in § 141 StGB Entwendung)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Diebstahl kleiner Mengen Nahrungsmittel oder anderer lebensnotwendiger Dinge für den dringenden Eigenbedarf
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Mundraub
- Mundraubes genitive
- Mundraubs genitive
- Mundraube plural
- Mundrauben dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Mundraub?
- /ˈmʊntˌraʊ̯p/
- [ˈmʊntˌʁaʊ̯p]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Mundraub in German?
Mundraub appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).