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You're probably referring to the word that sounds like "GAH-nif" in colloquial Yiddish.

That word is the Hebrew "gah-NAHV", straight from the Biblical civil laws in Exodus.

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The word for thief in Yiddish is "gonif" (גאָנעוו).

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