rob

See also: Rob, røb, ròb, and rób

English

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Pronunciation

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

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Etymology 1

Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman rober, robber, from Old Dutch *rōbōn (compare Dutch roven), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną (compare English reave). More at reave.

Verb

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.
   • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

     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, Nobody, chapter I:

     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. (intransitive, 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, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, 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.

Derived terms

• on the rob
• rob Peter to pay Paul
• robber

• robbery
• rob somebody blind
• rob the cradle

Related terms

• reave, bereave
• rip
• rubble, rubbish

Translations

to steal from, using violence

• Arabic: نهب (nahab), سلب (salab)

  Egyptian Arabic: سرق (saraʔ)

• Armenian: կողոպտել (kołoptel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搶劫, 抢劫 (zh) (qiǎngjié)

• Danish: røve
• Dutch: beroven (nl), bestelen (nl)
• Finnish: ryöstää (fi)
• French: voler (fr), cambrioler (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: rauben (de)
• Greek: ληστεύω (el) (listévo), κλέβω (el) (klévo)
• Hungarian: rabol (hu), kirabol (hu)
• Japanese: 盗む (ja) (ぬすむ, nusumu), 奪う (うばう, ubau), 略奪する (ja) (りゃくだつする, ryakudatsu-suru)

• Luxembourgish: beluxen
• Occitan: raubar (oc)
• Persian: ربودن (fa) (robudan)
• Portuguese: assaltar (pt)
• Quechua: ch'aspay, suway
• Russian: грабить (ru) impf (grábit’), ограбить (ru) pf (ográbit’)
• Scottish Gaelic: creach
• Spanish: asaltar (es)
• Swedish: råna (sv)
• Vietnamese: cướp (vi)

to deprive of

• Danish: bestjæle, berøve
• Finnish: ryöstää (fi)
• French: voler (fr)
• Greek: αποστερώ (el) (aposteró)
• Japanese: 奪う (うばう, ubau), 奪い取る (うばいとる, ubai-toru)

• Portuguese: roubar
• Romanian: fura (ro)
• Russian: лишать (ru) impf (lišát’), лишить (ru) pf (lišít’)
• Spanish: privar (es) de, quitar (es), robar (es)
• Swedish: beröva (sv)

to burgle

• Armenian: կողոպտել (kołoptel)
• Danish: stjæle (da), tyvstjæle
• Greek: διαρρηγνύω (el) (diarrignýo)
• Hungarian: betör (hu)

• Japanese: 奪う (うばう, ubau), 奪い取る (うばいとる, ubai-toru), 略奪する (ja) (りゃくだつする, ryakudatsu-suru)
• Portuguese: roubar
• Spanish: robar (es)

to commit robbery

• Armenian: կողոպտել (kołoptel)
• Danish: begå røveri, røve
• Finnish: ryöstää (fi)
• French: cambrioler (fr)
• Greek: ληστεύω (el) (listévo)
• Japanese: 奪う (うばう, ubau), 奪い取る (うばいとる, ubai-toru), 略奪する (ja) (りゃくだつする, ryakudatsu-suru)

• Portuguese: assaltar (pt)
• Russian: грабить (ru) impf (grábit’), ограбить (ru) pf (ográbit’)
• Scottish Gaelic: creach
• Spanish: robar (es)
• Swedish: röva (sv), råna (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: سرق (sáraqa)
• Mandarin: 搶劫, 抢劫 (qiāngjié)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} roven (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} rauben (de)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} kirabol
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} derubare

• Korean: 빼앗다 (bbaeatda)
• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} şelandin (ku)
• Persian: دزدیدن (dozdidan)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} ropati, ^{(please verify)} oropati

Etymology 2

French; compare Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, and similar Arabic and Persian words.

Alternative forms

• rhob, rohob

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• bor
• bro
• orb

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Noun

rob m (plural robben, diminutive robbetje n)

1. seal (sea mammal)

Synonyms

• zeehond

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

rob m (plural robi)

1. slave

Synonyms

• sclav

Derived terms

• dezrobi

See also

• șerb

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rôb/

Noun

rȍb m (Cyrillic spelling ро̏б)

1. slave

Declension

    declension of rob

	singular	plural
nominative	rob	robovi
genitive	roba	robova
dative	robu	robovima
accusative	roba	robove
vocative	robe	robovi
locative	robu	robovima
instrumental	robom	robovima

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Spanish

Noun

rob m (plural robes)

1. fruit syrup

Related terms

• arrope