róba

See also: roba, robá, robà, robā, robă, robą, róbà, and rōba

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Robe, from French robe, from Frankish *rauba. It seems also related to German Raub (“plunder, loot”), so it originally probably meant "seized clothes".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈroːba]
• Hyphenation: ró‧ba
• Rhymes: -oːba

Noun

róba f

1. female evening dress, evening gown

Declension

Declension of róba (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	róba	róby
genitive	róby	rób
dative	róbě	róbám
accusative	róbu	róby
vocative	róbo	róby
locative	róbě	róbách
instrumental	róbou	róbami

Further reading

• “róba”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “róba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• bóra

Irish

Etymology

From Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”) (possibly via English robe), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewp- (“to tear, peel”).

Noun

róba m (genitive singular róba, nominative plural róbaí)

1. gown, robe

   Synonym: gúna

Declension

Declension of róba (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative róba róbaí vocative a róba a róbaí genitive róba róbaí dative róba róbaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an róba na róbaí genitive an róba na róbaí dative leis an róba don róba leis na róbaí

Derived terms

• róba a chur ar, róbáil (“robe”, verb)
• róba folctha (“bathrobe”)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “róba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “róba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “róba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “róba”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from German Robe, from French robe, from Frankish *rauba. It seems also related to German Raub (“plunder, loot”), so it originally probably meant "seized clothes".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈroːba]

Noun

róba f

1. female evening dress, evening gown

Declension

Declension of róba
(pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	róba	róby
genitive	róby	rób
dative	róbe	róbam
accusative	róbu	róby
locative	róbe	róbach
instrumental	róbou	róbami

Further reading

• “róba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025