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κλέφτης
2 English words descend from Greek
κλέφτης
, most common first.
kleft
A type of brigand operating in the mountains of pre-Revolutionary Greece.
klepht
An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.