Robin
See also: robin
English
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Alternative forms
- Robyn (as a given name)
Etymology
From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Rob‧in
Proper noun
Robin (plural Robins)
- A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Like, 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, 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.
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Like, Scene 1:
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, 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 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.
- 1949, Adela Rogers St. John, Never Again, and Other Stories (Doubleday 1949), page 25:
- (rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname transferred from the given name
Derived terms
Translations
Male given name
See also
- Robin (comic book character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
Robin (plural Robins)
- (soccer) Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Proper noun
Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Ro‧bin
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Robin
- a unisex given name, equivalent to English Robin
Estonian
Etymology
Recently borrowed from English.
Proper noun
Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
French
Etymology
From Old French diminutive of Robert.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Robin m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
- a patronymic surname
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French, diminutive of Robert.
Proper noun
Robin
- a male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Robin
- 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."
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
Norwegian
Etymology
Proper noun
Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Swedish
Etymology
From English Robin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1880.
Proper noun
Robin c (genitive Robins)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 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.
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