different between robe vs smock

English

Etymology

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

Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roub?n (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English r?af (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English r?afian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???b/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Noun

robe (plural robes)

1. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
2. (US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
3. A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
4. The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.

Derived terms

• bathrobe

Descendants

• ? Irish: róba
• ? Scottish Gaelic: ròb

Translations

Verb

robe (third-person singular simple present robes, present participle robing, simple past and past participle robed)

1. (transitive) To clothe; to dress.
2. (intransitive) To put on official vestments.

Synonyms

• (to clothe): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• berobed

Anagrams

• Bero, Boer, Ebor, Ebro, bore

Asturian

Verb

robe

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of robar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of robar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rob?/
• Rhymes: -ob?
• Hyphenation: ro?be

Noun

robe m

1. vocative singular of rob

Anagrams

• bore, oreb

Dutch

Etymology

From French robe.

Pronunciation

Noun

robe f (plural roben or robes, diminutive robetje n)

1. gown, robe

French

Etymology

Old French, from Proto-Germanic *raub? (“booty”), later "stolen clothing".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/

Noun

robe f (plural robes)

1. dress, frock
2. fur, coat (of an animal)

   Ce cheval a une robe isabelle.

3. wine's colour

Derived terms

Hypernyms

• habit
• vêtement

Descendants

• ? Dutch: robe
• ? German: Robe
  • ? Czech: róba

See also

• Les couleurs de la robe d'un cheval /The colors of horses' hair/ : alezan, aubère, bai, blanc, crème, gris, isabelle, noir, palomino, pie, rouan, souris.

Further reading

• “robe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bore, orbe

Italian

Noun

robe f

1. plural of roba

Anagrams

• orbe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• roobe, rob, robbe

Etymology

From Old French robe, from Frankish *rouba, *rauba, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz, *raub?. Doublet of reif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??b(?)/, /?r?b(?)/

Noun

robe (plural robes)

1. robe (long loose garment):
   1. A robe as a symbol of rank or office.
   2. A robe as a spoil or booty of war; a robe given as a gift.
2. (as a plural) The garments an individual is wearing.

Derived terms

• roben
• warderobe

Descendants

• English: robe
  • ? Irish: róba
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: ròb
• Scots: robe

References

• “r??be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

robe f (plural robes)

1. (Jersey) dress

   Synonym: fro

2. (Jersey) robe

Old French

Alternative forms

• robbe, reube

Etymology

From Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raub?, *raubaz, *raub? (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”).

Noun

robe f (oblique plural robes, nominative singular robe, nominative plural robes)

1. booty; spoils (chiefly of war)
2. piece of clothing
   • c. 1170,, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     [D]onez li [d]e voz robes que vos avez
     La mellor que vos i savez.

     Give her the clothes that you have

     The best that you know of.

Related terms

• robeor
• rober

Descendants

• Middle French: robe
  • French: robe
    • ? Dutch: robe
    • ? German: Robe
      • ? Czech: róba
• Norman: robe
• ? Middle English: robe, roobe, rob, robbe
  • English: robe
    • ? Irish: róba
    • ? Scottish Gaelic: ròb
  • Scots: robe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (robe)

Portuguese

Etymology

From French robe [de chambre].

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???.b(?)/
• Hyphenation: ro?be

Noun

robe m (plural robes)

1. dressing gown

   Synonym: roupão

References

Spanish

Verb

robe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of robar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of robar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of robar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of robar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”); akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sm?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sm?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

smock (plural smocks)

1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
   • 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale

     Before the folk herselfe stripped she,

     And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,

     Toward her father's house forth is she fare.

2. A blouse; a smock frock.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.

3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

Translations

Adjective

smock (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
2. Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

Derived terms

• smock mill
• smock race

Verb

smock (third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)

1. (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
3. (transitive, sewing) To apply smocking.

Derived terms

• smocker

References

• smock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Mocks, mocks

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca.

Noun

smock

1. smoke

Derived terms

• smockeen

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN