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rob
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: r?b, IPA(key): /??b/
- Rhymes: -?b
- (US) enPR: räb, IPA(key): /??b/
Etymology 1
From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, rober, Old French rober (“to rob”), from Medieval Latin raub? (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Frankish *raub?n, *r?b?n (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roub?n, raub?n (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raub?n?. 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.
- (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
- (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
- 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.
- (transitive, slang) To burgle.
- 2008, National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Sept 4, 2008
- Her house was robbed.
- 2008, National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Sept 4, 2008
- (transitive, Britain, slang) To steal.
- That chav robbed my phone!
- (intransitive) To commit robbery.
- (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
Derived terms
Related terms
- reave, bereave
- rip
- rubble, rubbish
Translations
Etymology 2
From French [Term?]; compare Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ?????? (present stem: robâ) and also similar in Arabic.
Alternative forms
- rhob, rohob
Noun
rob (uncountable)
- 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, Bor, Bor., ORB, bor, bro, bro., orb
Afar
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali róob.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ob/
- Hyphenation: rob
Noun
rób m
- rain
Declension
References
- Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar?[1], 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)?[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 171
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch rob.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [r?p]
Noun
rob (plural robbe)
- seal (pinniped)
Synonyms
- (seal): seehond
Albanian
Etymology
From a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian rob, Macedonian ??? (rob), Bulgarian ??? (rob), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“servant, slave”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??b]
- IPA(key): [???b] (Gheg)
Noun
rob m (indefinite plural robër, definite singular robi, definite plural robërit)
- (historical) slave
- (historical) serf
- prisoner of war
- (figurative, derogatory) servant
rob m (indefinite plural rob, definite singular robi, definite plural robtë)
- person, family member
Synonyms
- skllav, shërbëtor
Derived terms
- robëri, robëreshë, robinjë, robëroj, robi
References
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- rop
Etymology
From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“slave”). Compare Daco-Romanian rob.
Noun
rob m (plural roghi, feminine equivalent roabã)
- slave
Synonyms
- sclav
Derived terms
- rubuescu
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rop/
- Rhymes: -op
- Homophone: rop
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *orb? (“servant, slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erb?- (“orphan, child slave or servant”)..Compare English robot and Serbo-Croatian rob.
Noun
rob m
- (obsolete) slave, serf
Declension
Synonyms
- nevolník
- otrok
- rab
Derived terms
- rab
- rob?v
Related terms
- roba
- rob?
- robit
- robota
- robot
Etymology 2
Noun
rob f
- genitive plural of roba
Etymology 3
Verb
rob
- second-person singular imperative of robit
See also
- robte
Anagrams
- bor
- obr
References
Further reading
- rob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- rob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?p/
- Hyphenation: rob
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
Uncertain; compare English rabbit. Or, possibly related to Latvian rups (“coarse, rough”), referring to the whiskers. Also compared is the personal name Robbe. Has also compared to English rub, referring to seals' movements, but this is unlikely.
Noun
rob m (plural robben, diminutive robbetje n)
- seal, any member of the family Phocidae
- Synonym: zeehond
Derived terms
- blaasrob
- kegelrob
- klapmutsrob
- manenrob
- pelsrob
- ringelrob
- stinkrob
- zadelrob
- zeerob
Descendants
- Afrikaans: rob
Etymology 2
Uncertain; compare English rabbit, as well as English rub, referring to the fur. Or, from Proto-West Germanic *reufan (“to tear”), hinted by the animals' digging of tunnels.
Noun
rob f (plural robben, diminutive robbeken n)
- (Belgium) rabbit
- Synonym: konijn
Alternative forms
- robbe
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “rob1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute (seal)
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “rob5”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute (rabbit)
Middle English
Noun
rob
- Alternative form of robe
Romanian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rob/
- Rhymes: -ob
Noun
rob m (plural robi, feminine equivalent roab?)
- slave
Declension
Synonyms
- sclav
Derived terms
- robie
- robi
- dezrobi
See also
- ?erb
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From West Slavic dialects, from Proto-Slavic *orb? (“slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”). Compare English robot and Russian ??????? (rabóta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rôb/
Noun
r?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- slave
Declension
References
- “rob” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [rop]
Verb
rob
- second-person singular imperative of robi?
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *r?b?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ró?p/
Noun
r??b m inan
- border, edge
- Synonym: kónec
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ró?p/
Noun
r??b m anim
- (obsolete) slave
- Synonym: súženj
Spanish
Etymology
See arrope
Noun
rob m (plural robes)
- fruit syrup
Related terms
- arrope
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occupy
English
Etymology
From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occup?re (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capi? (“to take”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kj?pa?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??kj?pa?/
- Hyphenation: oc?cu?py
Verb
occupy (third-person singular simple present occupies, present participle occupying, simple past and past participle occupied)
- (transitive, of time) To take or use.
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- To hold the attention of.
- To fill.
- (transitive) To take or use space.
- To fill space.
- To live or reside in.
- The better apartments were already occupied.
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 [1]:
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]
- 1975, Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643, page 330 [2]:
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- 1983, Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902, page 462:
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied, but could not be held.
- 1991, Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe, page 333:
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- 2006, John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, page 496:
- Spain occupied, but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
- 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 [1]:
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- To fill space.
- (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv
- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- 1867, Robert Nares A Glossary
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4.
- Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
- For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy his land. B. Jons. Epigr., 117.
- Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy, nature, and the like. Ibid., Discoveries, vol. vii, p. 119.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv
- (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (in Latin), 1516
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (in Latin), 1516
- They occupy not money themselves.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to possess or use the time or capacity of): employ, busy
- (to have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
- occupier
Related terms
- occupant
- occupation
Translations
See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
References
- occupy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- occupy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- occupy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- occupy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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