Robin

See also robin

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Robyn (as a female given name)

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of Robert

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈrɒbɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"rQbIn/
• (US) IPA: /ˈrɑbɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"rAbIn/
• Hyphenation: rob‧in

Proper noun

Robin

1. A male given name.
   • Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Oure Hoste saugh that he was dronke of ale,

     And seyde, "Abyd, Robin, my leve brother,

     Som bettre man shal telle us first another:

     Abyd, and lat us werken thriftily."

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act i, Scene 1:

     They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.

   • 1785 Robert Burns, Rantin', Rovin' Robin:

     This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.

   • 1991 Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0224031570, page 12:

     Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change your name by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.

2. A female given name, also associated with the bird robin.
   • 1949 Adela Rogers St. John, Never Again, and Other Stories, Doubleday 1949, page 25:

     "We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.

3. (rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname.
4. A comic book superhero, the sidekick of Batman; also the Boy Wonder.

Derived terms

• Robin Hood

See also

• Robin (comic book character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Robin (comics)

Translations

Male given name

• Esperanto: Robĉjo (eo)
• French: Robin (fr) m
• Japanese: ロビン (ja)

• Korean: 로빈 (ko)
• Marathi: रॉबिन (mr) (rǒbina) m

Sidekick of Batman

• Bengali: রবিন (bn)
• Dutch: Robin (nl)
• Esperanto: Ruĝgorĝulo (eo)
• French: Robin (fr)
• German: Robin (de)
• Greek: Ρόμπιν (el) (Róbin)

• Italian: Robin (it)
• Japanese: ロビン (ja)
• Korean: 로빈 (ko)
• Marathi: रॉबिन (mr) (rǒbina) m
• Polish: Robin (pl)
• Spanish: Robin (es)

Noun

Robin (plural Robins)

1. (soccer) someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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Czech

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Proper noun

Robin m

1. A male given name, cognate to Robin

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Danish

Proper noun

Robin

1. A male given name borrowed from English.

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Estonian

Proper noun

Robin

1. A male given name recently borrowed from English.

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French

Etymology

Old French diminutive of Robert.

Proper noun

Robin (m)

1. A male given name.
2. A patronymic surname.

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German

Proper noun

Robin

1. A male given name borrowed from English.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Robin

1. A male given name borrowed from English.

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Swedish

Etymology

From English Robin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1880.

Proper noun

Robin

1. A male given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 27 631 males with the given name Robin living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.