rob
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rob
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Etymology 1
From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, from Late Latin raubāre, from Frankish *raubōn (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roubōn, raubōn (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Doublet of reave.
Verb
rob (third-person singular simple present robs, present participle robbing, simple past and past participle robbed)
- (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
- He robbed three banks before he was caught.
- (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
- The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
- (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
- Working all day robs me of any energy to go out in the evening.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
- 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 flavor.
- (transitive, slang) To burgle.
- 2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered:
- Her house was robbed.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To steal.
- That bloke robbed my phone!
- (intransitive) To commit robbery.
- (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “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.
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Translations
to steal from, using violence
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to deprive of
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to burgle
to commit robbery
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Etymology 2
From Medieval Latin rob, from Arabic ربّ (“thickened fruit juice”). Compare French rob, Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ربودن (present stem: robâ).
Alternative forms
Noun
rob (uncountable)
- A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes. [from 15th c.]
- 1749, [Thomas Short], “10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, volume II, T[homas] Longman, A[ndrew] Millar, →OCLC, pages 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.
- 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 20 December:
- Also began to make wort from the malt and give it to such people as had symptoms of the scurvy; one of them indeed is highly scorbutick altho he has been taking of the rob for some time past without finding himself benefited therefrom […] .
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Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *roob- ~ *roop-. Cognates include Iraqw tluuw, Somali róob, Oromo rooba and Saho rob.
Pronunciation
Noun
rób m
Declension
References
- Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “rob”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 171
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rob (plural robbe)
- seal (pinniped)
Synonyms
- (seal): seehond
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