rob

See also: Rob, røb, ròb, and rób

English

Pronunciation

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

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Etymology 1

From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, rober, Old French rober (“to rob”), from Frankish *rōbōn (compare Dutch roven), Old High German roubōn, raubōn ("to rob, steal, plunder"; > Medieval Latin raubare (“to rob, steal, plunder”)), 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.

   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, 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, “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.

Derived terms

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

• robbery
• rob someone blind
• rob the cradle

Related terms

• reave, bereave
• rip
• rubble, rubbish

Translations

to steal from, using violence

• Arabic: نَهَب‎‎ (nahab), سَلَب‎‎ (salab)

  Egyptian Arabic: سرق‎‎ (saraʔ)

• Armenian: կողոպտել (hy) (kołoptel)
• Catalan: robar (ca), atracar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搶劫 (zh), 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)

• Italian: rapinare (it), saccheggiare (it)
• Japanese: 盗む (ja) (ぬすむ, nusumu), 奪う (ja) (うばう, ubau), 略奪する (ja) (りゃくだつする, ryakudatsu-suru), 強奪する (ごうだつ-する, gōdatsu-suru)
• Latin: latrocinor (la)
• Luxembourgish: beluxen
• Occitan: raubar (oc)
• Persian: ربودن‎‎ (fa) (robudan)
• Polish: grabić (pl) impf, obłupić pf, obrabować (pl) pf, ograbić pf
• Portuguese: assaltar (pt)
• Quechua: ch'aspay, suway
• Russian: гра́бить (ru) impf (grábitʹ), огра́бить (ru) pf (ográbitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: creach
• Spanish: robar (es), atracar (es)
• Swedish: råna (sv)
• Vietnamese: cướp (vi)

to deprive of

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

• Portuguese: roubar (pt)
• Romanian: fura (ro)
• Russian: лиша́ть (ru) impf (lišátʹ), лиши́ть (ru) pf (lišítʹ)
• Spanish: privar (es) de, quitar (es), robar (es)
• Swedish: beröva (sv)

to burgle

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

• Japanese: 奪う (ja) (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 (pt)
• Spanish: robar (es)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to commit robbery

• Armenian: կողոպտել (hy) (kołoptel)
• Danish: begå røveri, røve
• Finnish: ryöstää (fi)
• French: cambrioler (fr)
• Greek: ληστεύω (el) (listévo)
• Japanese: 奪う (ja) (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: гра́бить (ru) impf (grábitʹ), огра́бить (ru) pf (ográbitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: creach
• Spanish: robar (es)
• Swedish: röva (sv), råna (sv)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: سرق‎ (sáraqa)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} roven (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} rauben (de)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} kirabol (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} derubare (it)

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

Etymology 2

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

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.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• Bor, Bor., ORB, bor, bro, orb

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rob.

Noun

rob (plural robbe)

1. seal (pinniped)

Synonyms

• (seal): seehond

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• rop

Etymology

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

Noun

rob m (plural roghi, feminine equivalent roabã)

1. slave

Synonyms

• sclav

Derived terms

• rubuescu

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Czech

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

rob m

1. (obsolete) slave, serf
   • 1887, Josef Václav Sládek, “Z osudu rukou”, in Selské písně a české znělky‎^[1], line 7:

     Tak všichni jsme z lidí, vládce i rob.

     So we are all of people, both a ruler and a serf.

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	rob	robové, robi
genitive	roba	robů
dative	robovi, robu	robům
accusative	roba	roby
vocative	robe	robové, robi
locative	robovi, robu	robech
instrumental	robem	roby

Synonyms

• nevolník
• otrok
• rab

Derived terms

• rab
• robův

Related terms

• roba
• robě
• robit
• robota
• robot

Etymology 2

Noun

rob f

1. genitive plural of roba

Etymology 3

Verb

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robit

See also

• robte

Anagrams

• bor
• obr

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Dutch

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔp/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: rob
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

rob m (plural robben, diminutive robbetje n)

1. seal (sea mammal)

Synonyms

• zeehond

Derived terms

• pelsrob

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rob

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Middle English

Noun

rob

1. Alternative form of robe

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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, feminine equivalent roabă)

1. slave

Declension

declension of rob

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) rob	robul	(niște) robi	robii
genitive/dative	(unui) rob	robului	(unor) robi	robilor
vocative	robule		robilor

Synonyms

• sclav

Derived terms

• robie
• robi
• dezrobi

See also

• șerb

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

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

References

• “rob”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2018

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Slovene

Noun

rob ? (genitive [please provide], nominative plural [please provide])

1. border

   rób gozda - edge of the forest

Synonyms

1. konec

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Spanish

Noun

rob m (plural robes)

1. fruit syrup

Related terms

• arrope