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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).

Alternative forms

Noun

bot (plural bots)

  1. The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
    • 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:
      One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
    • 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:
      Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
Translations

Etymology 2

From bottom.

Verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (British, slang) To bugger.
  2. (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
    Synonym: (UK) bum
    Can I bot a smoke?
    Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.

Etymology 3

Clipping of robot.

Alternative forms

Noun

bot (plural bots)

  1. (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
    • 1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130:
      I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
    • 2005, Greg Bear, Quantico‎, page 71:
      As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
    • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void‎:
      The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
  2. (computing) A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
    • 2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference‎, page 42:
      The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
    • 2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style‎, page 91:
      He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.
    • 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies‎, page 59:
      Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.
    • 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic‎, retrieved 2021-09-01:
      Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.
  3. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
    Synonyms: NPC, AI
    • 2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
      Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.
  4. (video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.
    • 2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer‎:
      "That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."
  5. (Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
robot — see robot

Verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
    Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
Derived terms

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch bot, from botte. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ.

Noun

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

  1. sprout, bud

Verb

bot (present bot, present participle bot, past participle gebot)

  1. to sprout, to bud
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *buttaz.

Adjective

bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)

  1. blunt, dull (of an object)
  2. obtuse, dull, stupid
Derived terms

Noun

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

  1. a bone
  2. (fish) flounder, fluke, butt
    Synonym: botvis
  3. (parasitic flatworm) fluke
    Synonym: slakwurm

Etymology 3

Noun

bot

  1. Alternative spelling of bod

References

Bislama

Etymology

From English boat.

Noun

bot

  1. boat

Catalan

Etymology 1

Deverbal from botar.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

  1. jump, leap
    Synonyms: salt, saltiró
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

  1. boat
    Synonyms: barca, vaixell

Etymology 3

Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”), probably of Ancient Greek origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

  1. wineskin
    Synonym: odre
  2. bagpipes
    Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
  3. sunfish (large marine fish of the family Molidae)
    Synonym: mola
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Verb

bot

  1. inflection of botre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.

Noun

bot m

  1. blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bot, but, butte, related to Middle Low German but (“dull, plump, coarse”), West Frisian bot (“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).

Adjective

bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

  2. not sharp, blunt, dull
    De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen.
    The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.
  3. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
    Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens.
    His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.
Declension
Inflection of bot
uninflected bot
inflected botte
comparative botter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bot botter het botst
het botste
indefinite m./f. sing. botte bottere botste
n. sing. bot botter botste
plural botte bottere botste
definite botte bottere botste
partitive bots botters —
Declension
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
  • → Papiamentu: bòt

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch but. Cognate with English butt, German Butt, in all senses.

Noun

bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  2. bone
    Synonyms: been, knekel, knook
    De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebroken bot heeft.
    The doctor has determined that he has a broken bone.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with English butt (“flatfish”), German Butt (“lefteye flounder”), West Frisian bot (“flounder”).

Noun

bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  2. flounder (a type of fish)
    Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen.
    I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: bot
  • → West Frisian: bot

Etymology 4

From French botte.

Noun

bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  1. (Belgium) boot

Etymology 5

Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

Noun

bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

  1. A bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games).
Related terms

French

Etymology 1

From Middle French bot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“butt, stump, end”). If so, a doublet of but.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)

  1. (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
    un pied bot ― a clubfoot
  2. (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
    une main bote ― a deformed hand

Etymology 2

From English bot.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

  1. (computing) bot

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Verb

bot

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic, language, from Proto-Slavic *bъtъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot (plural botok)

  1. stick, staff
  2. walking stick, cane
    Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bot botok
accusative botot botokat
dative botnak botoknak
instrumental bottal botokkal
causal-final botért botokért
translative bottá botokká
terminative botig botokig
essive-formal botként botokként
essive-modal — —
inessive botban botokban
superessive boton botokon
adessive botnál botoknál
illative botba botokba
sublative botra botokra
allative bothoz botokhoz
elative botból botokból
delative botról botokról
ablative bottól botoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		boté botoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		botéi botokéi
Possessive forms of bot
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. botom botjaim
2nd person sing. botod botjaid
3rd person sing. botja botjai
1st person plural botunk botjaink
2nd person plural bototok botjaitok
3rd person plural botjuk botjaik

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions

Further reading

  • bot in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bot in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English but.

Pronunciation

Preposition

bot

  1. but
    Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.
    He warned you many times, but you didn't listen.

Further reading

  • bot at majstro.com

Javanese

Romanization

bot

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bāt.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

bot (plural botes)

  1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
    1. A boat (a watercraft or vessel smaller than a ship).
    2. A boat stowed on a ship for utility purposes, especially for tendering.
  2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.
Derived terms
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From Old Norse búð.

Noun

bot

  1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

Etymology 3

From Old English batt.

Noun

bot

  1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

From Old English bōt.

Noun

bot

  1. Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

Etymology 5

From Old French bote.

Noun

bot

  1. Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bozdos (“tail, penis”) (compare Welsh both (“hub, nave”), Breton bod (“bush, shrub; branch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gwosdʰos (“piece of wood”), compare Proto-Slavic *gvozdь (“nail, tack, peg”).

Noun

bot m

  1. tail
  2. penis

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bot bot
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/		 mbot
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old Norse bót.

Noun

bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

  1. a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
  2. a remedy
  3. a patch

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Old Norse bót.

Noun

bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

  1. a fine (as above)
  2. a remedy
  3. a patch

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).

Cognates
Cognate with Old Frisian bōte, Old Saxon bōta, Dutch boete, Old High German buoza (German Buße), Old Norse bōt (Swedish bot), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta).

Pronunciation

Noun

bōt f (nominative plural bōte)

  1. help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
    • Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
  2. mending, repair, improvement
    • ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
  3. compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
    • For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
  4. improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
    • Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted

Declension

Declension of bot (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative bōt bōta, bōte
accusative bōte bōta, bōte
genitive bōte bōta
dative bōte bōtum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *padda, probably a Germanic loan from Frankish *paddā (“toad”). Compare Italian botta (“toad”), Old English padde (“toad”), Old Norse padda (“toad”). More at paddock.

Noun

bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular bot, nominative plural boz or botz)

  1. toad (animal)
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).

Noun

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

  1. strike; hit; blow
Synonyms

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

  1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

See bout.

Noun

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

  1. Alternative form of bout

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bot) (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
  • bot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')

Old Javanese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat (compare Malay berat). Doublet of bwat and wrat.

Adjective

bot

  1. heavy
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat. Doublet of bwat and wwat.

Noun

bot

  1. style, make
Derived terms

Further reading

  • "bot" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

Noun

bōt f

  1. improvement
  2. benefit, utility
  3. cure
  4. compensation

Declension

Declension of bōt (consonant stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bōt bōtin bø̄ter bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
accusative bōt bōtina, -ena bø̄ter bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
dative bōt bōtinni, -inne bōtum, -om bōtumin, -omen
genitive bōta(r) inna(r) bōta bōtanna

or

Declension of bōt (i-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bōt bōtin bōti(r), -e(r) bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
accusative bōt bōtina, -ena bōti(r), -e(r) bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
dative bōt bōtinni, -inne bōtum, -om bōtumin, -omen
genitive bōta(r) bōtinna(r) bōta bōtanna

Descendants

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Czech bot, from French botte.

Noun

bot m inan (diminutive botek)

  1. ankle boot
Declension
Declension of bot
singular plural
nominative bot boty
genitive bota botów
dative botowi botom
accusative bot boty
instrumental botem botami
locative bocie botach
vocative bocie boty

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bot.

Noun

bot m animal

  1. (computing) bot
Declension
Declension of bot
singular plural
nominative bot boty
genitive bota botów
dative botowi botom
accusative bota boty
instrumental botem botami
locative bocie botach
vocative bocie boty

Further reading

  • bot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.te/

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

  1. (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
  2. (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *botum, perhaps from Latin botulus or from a root *botium, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push, strike”).

Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.

Noun

bot n (plural boturi)

  1. (of animals) snout, mouth
  2. (of a person, vulgar) mouth
  3. bump
  4. hump
  5. (vulgar) blowjob
Declension
Declension of bot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bot botul (niște) boturi boturile
genitive/dative (unui) bot botului (unor) boturi boturilor
vocative botule boturilor
Synonyms
See also

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 469

Etymology 2

From English bot.

Noun

bot m (plural boți)

  1. bot
Declension
Declension of bot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bot botul (niște) boți boții
genitive/dative (unui) bot botului (unor) boți boților
vocative botule boților

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbot/
  • Rhymes: -ot
  • Syllabification: bot

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

  1. bot (robot)

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot c

  1. fine (penalty in money)
Usage notes
  • In newer usage, the indefinite plural böter has frequently been reinterpreted as a singular noun due to usage without an article. Thus, for example, the common phrase "betala böter" has shifted in meaning from "pay fines" to "pay a fine". This is unrecognized by language authorities, however.
Declension
Declension of bot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bot boten böter böterna
Genitive bots botens böters böternas
Related terms

Etymology 2

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot c

  1. cure; remedy
  2. (religious) penance
Declension
Declension of bot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bot boten boter boterna
Genitive bots botens boters boternas
Related terms

Etymology 3

Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot c

  1. bot (robot)
Declension
Declension of bot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bot botten bottar bottarna
Genitive bots bottens bottars bottarnas
Declension of bot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bot boten botar botarna
Genitive bots botens botars botarnas

Further reading

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

Noun

bot

  1. thigh

Turkish

Etymology 1

From French botte.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

  1. boot

Etymology 2

From English boat

Pronunciation

Noun

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

  1. boat
    Synonym: tekne

Volapük

Noun

bot (nominative plural bots)

  1. boat

Declension

declension of bot
singular plural
nominative bot bots
genitive bota botas
dative bote botes
accusative boti botis
vocative 1 o bot! o bots!
predicative 2 botu botus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian butie, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end piece”), related to English butt.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bot

  1. curt, blunt, rude
  2. dull (as a knife)
Inflection
Inflection of bot
uninflected bot
inflected botte
comparative botter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bot botter it botst
it botste
indefinite c. sing. botte bottere botste
n. sing. bot botter botste
plural botte bottere botste
definite botte bottere botste
partitive bots botters —
Further reading
  • “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

bot

  1. very, quite
Further reading
  • “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly derived from bot (“blunt-headed fish”), in which case ultimately from the source of Etymology 1 above. Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut.

Pronunciation

Noun

bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

  1. flounder (a type of fish)
Further reading
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia