rob

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

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

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     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 40817384:

     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, National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Sept 4, 2008

     Her house was robbed.

5. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
6. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
   • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14998317.stm 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.

• reave, bereave
• rip
• rubble, rubbish

From French [Term?]; compare Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ربودن‎ (present stem: robâ) and also similar in Arabic.

• rhob, rohob

rob (uncountable)

1. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
   • 1749, [Thomas Short], “[Of the Symptoms of Fevers, and Their Cure.] 10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. in Sundry Places and Different Times; More Particularly for the Space of 250 Years. Together with Some of Their Most Remarkable Effects on Animal (Especially Human) Bodies, and Vegetables. In Two Volumes, volume II, Printed for T[homas] Longman, in Paternoster-Row; and A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, OCLC 912982174, page 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.

• Bor, Bor., ORB, bor, bro, orb

From Dutch rob.

rob (plural robbe)

1. seal (pinniped)

• (seal): seehond

From a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian rob, Macedonian роб (rob), Bulgarian роб (rob), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“servant, slave”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ɾɔb]

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

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

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

1. person, family member

• skllav, shërbëtor

• robëri, robëreshë, robinjë, robëroj, robi

• rop

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

rob m (plural roghi, feminine equivalent roabã)

1. slave

• sclav

• rubuescu

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

From Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“servant, slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“orphan, child slave or servant”).[1]. Compare English robot and Serbo-Croatian rob.

rob m

1. (obsolete) slave, serf
   • 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.

• nevolník
• otrok
• rab

• rab
• robův

• roba
• robě
• robit
• robota
• robot

rob f

1. genitive plural of roba

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robit

• robte

• bor
• obr

Uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /rɔp/

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• Hyphenation: rob
• Rhymes: -ɔp

rob m (plural robben, diminutive robbetje n)

1. seal, any member of the family Phocidae

   Synonym: zeehond

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

• Afrikaans: rob

rob

1. Alternative form of robe

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”).

rob m (plural robi, feminine equivalent roabă)

1. slave

• sclav

• robie
• robi
• dezrobi

• șerb

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

• IPA^(key): /rôb/

rȍb m (Cyrillic spelling ро̏б)

1. slave

• “rob” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *rǫbъ.

• IPA^(key): /róːp/

rọ̑b m inan

1. border, edge

   Synonym: kónec

• IPA^(key): /róːp/

rọ̑b m anim

1. (obsolete) slave

   Synonym: súženj

rob m (plural robes)

1. fruit syrup

• arrope