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Ganove

19th-century back-formation from the plural Ganoven, from Yiddish גנבֿים (ganóvim), itself plural of גנבֿ (gánev, “thief”), whence the dated German form above. Further from Hebrew גַּנָּב (gannāv).

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c. 1910Modern Hebrew

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