roble

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roble (plural robles)

1. California white oak (Quercus lobata).
2. Nothofagus obliqua (syn. Lophozonia obliqua); noble beech.

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• “roble”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “roble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Boler, Borel, Robel, blore

• IPA^(key): /ˈroble/,
• Rhymes: -oble
• Hyphenation: ro‧ble

roble m (plural robles)

1. oak (tree or shrub of the genus Quercus)

Borrowed from Russian рубль (rublʹ).

Compare Northern Sami ruppal, Inari Sami ruble, Skolt Sami rubbâl / ruʹbll / rubll.

roble

1. rouble (monetary unit of places such as the Russian Federation and Belarus)

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “roble”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From robel +‎ -e.

roble n (diminutive robletko)

1. baby sparrow; sparrowling

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “roble”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “roble”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

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• robre (obsolete)

From former robre, from Latin rōbore, singular ablative of rōbur (“a kind of hard oak”), whence also Aragonese robre (“oak”) and Catalan roure (“oak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈroble/

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• Rhymes: -oble
• Syllabification: ro‧ble

roble m (plural robles)

1. oak, several species of the genus Quercus.

   Synonym: carvallo

2. the English oak, Quercus robur
3. oak (the wood)
4. strong object or person
5. strength

roble

1. inflection of roblar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “roble”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16