klepht

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.

Word forms

klepht klephts

Etymology

From Greek κλέφτης (kléftis, “thief”).

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