• (British) IPA: /pɜːˈlɔɪn/

purloin (purloins, present participle purloining; past and past participle purloined)

1. (transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Had from his wakeful custody purloined / The guarded gold.

2. (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.

• German: entwenden, mitgehen lassen
• Russian: присва́ивать
• Spanish: hurtar, robar

• German: stehlen
• Italian: rubare
• Russian: красть