rob

English

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Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹɔb/, IPA^(key): /ɹɒb/
• (UK) enPR: rŏb, IPA^(key): /ɹɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb
• (US) enPR: räb, IPA^(key): /ɹɑb/

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Etymology 1

From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, from Late Latin raubāre, from Frankish *raubōn (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roubōn, raubōn (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Doublet of reave.

Verb

rob (third-person singular simple present robs, present participle robbing, simple past and past participle robbed)

1. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.

   He robbed three banks before he was caught.

2. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.

   The best way to rob a bank is to own one.

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.

3. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).

   Working all day robs me of any energy to go out in the evening.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

4. (transitive, slang) To burgle.
   • 2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered:

     Her house was robbed.

5. (transitive, UK, slang) To steal.

   That bloke robbed my phone!

6. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
7. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
   • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:

     Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.

Derived terms

Related terms

• reave, bereave
• rip
• rubble, rubbish

Translations

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin rob, from Arabic ربّ (“thickened fruit juice”). Compare French rob, Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ربودن (present stem: robâ).

Alternative forms

• rhob, rohob

Noun

rob (uncountable)

1. A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
   • 1749, , “10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, volume II, T[homas] Longman, A[ndrew] Millar, →OCLC, pages 512–513:

     [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar.

   • 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 20 December:

     Also began to make wort from the malt and give it to such people as had symptoms of the scurvy; one of them indeed is highly scorbutick altho he has been taking of the rob for some time past without finding himself benefited therefrom .

Anagrams

• BOR, Bor, Bor., ORB, bor, bro, bro., orb

Afar

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *roob- ~ *roop-. Cognates include Iraqw tluuw, Somali róob, Oromo rooba and Saho rob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrob/,
• Hyphenation: rob

Noun

rób m 

1. rain

Declension

References

• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar‎, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “rob”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 171

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rob.

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Noun

rob (plural robbe)

1. seal (pinniped)

Synonyms

• (seal): seehond

Albanian

Etymology

From a South Slavic language; compare Serbo-Croatian rob, Macedonian роб (rob), Bulgarian роб (rob), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“servant, slave”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

rob m (plural robër, definite robi, definite plural robërit)

1. (historical) slave
2. (historical) serf
3. prisoner of war
4. (figurative, derogatory) servant

rob m (plural rob, definite robi, definite plural robtë)

1. person, family member

Synonyms

• skllav, shërbëtor

Derived terms

• robëri, robëreshë, robinjë, robëroj, robi

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• rop

Etymology

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“slave”). Compare Daco-Romanian rob.

Noun

rob m (plural roghi, feminine equivalent roabã)

1. slave

Synonyms

• sclav

Derived terms

• rubuescu

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -op
• Homophone: rop

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“servant, slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“orphan, child slave or servant”). Compare English robot and Serbo-Croatian rob.

Noun

rob m anim

1. (obsolete) slave, serf

   Synonyms: nevolník, otrok, rab

   • 1887, Josef Václav Sládek, “Z osudu rukou”, in Selské písně a české znělky‎, line 7:

     Tak všichni jsme z lidí, vládce i rob.

     So we are all of people, both a ruler and a serf.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

rob f

1. genitive plural of roba

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robit

References

Further reading

• rob in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• rob in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• bor
• obr

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔp/

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• Hyphenation: rob
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

Uncertain; compare English rabbit. Or, possibly related to Latvian rups (“coarse, rough”), referring to the whiskers. Also compared is the personal name Robbe. Has also compared to English rub, referring to seals' movements, but this is unlikely.

Noun

rob m (plural robben, diminutive robbetje n)

1. seal, any member of the family Phocidae

   Synonym: zeehond (more common)

Derived terms

• blaasrob
• kegelrob
• klapmutsrob
• manenrob
• pelsrob
• ringelrob
• stinkrob
• zadelrob
• zeerob

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rob

Etymology 2

Uncertain; compare English rabbit, as well as English rub, referring to the fur. Or, from Proto-West Germanic *reufan (“to tear”), hinted by the animals' digging of tunnels.

Noun

rob f (plural robben, diminutive robbeken n)

1. (Belgium) rabbit

   Synonym: konijn

Alternative forms

• robbe

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “rob1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute (seal)
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “rob5”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute (rabbit)

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Javanese ꦫꦺꦴꦧ꧀ (rob, “to rise”), form Old Javanese rob, rwab (“high tide, high water”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *Ruab, from Proto-Austronesian *Ruab. Doublet of luap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: rob

Noun

rob (first-person possessive robku, second-person possessive robmu, third-person possessive robnya)

1. coastal flooding due to high tide.

Further reading

• “rob” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

rob

1. Alternative form of robe

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: rob

Noun

rob f

1. genitive plural of roba

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic робъ (robŭ), from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Doublet of orb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rob/
• Rhymes: -ob

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Noun

rob m (plural robi, feminine equivalent roabă)

1. slave

   Synonym: sclav

Declension

Derived terms

• robie
• robi
• dezrobi

See also

• șerb

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From West Slavic dialects, from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Compare English robot and Russian рабо́та (rabóta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rôb/

Noun

rȍb m (Cyrillic spelling ро̏б)

1. slave

Declension

References

• “rob” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *õrbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Doublet of rab, a borrowed form.

Noun

rob m anim

1. (dialectal) slave

   Synonyms: otrok, nevoľník, (literary) rab

Declension

References

• Kálal, Miroslav (1924) Slovenský slovník z literatúry aj nárečí, Banská Bystrica

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robiť

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *rǫbъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /róːp/

Noun

rọ̑b m inan

1. border, edge

   Synonym: kónec

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /róːp/

Noun

rọ̑b m anim

1. (obsolete) slave

   Synonym: súženj

Further reading

• “rob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

See arrope.

Noun

rob m (plural robes)

1. fruit syrup

Related terms

Further reading

• “rob”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014