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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel ?apek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef, and taken into English without change.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r??b?t
• (UK) IPA^(key): /????b?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?b?t/
  • (rare, antiquated) enPR: r??b?t, IPA^(key): /??o?b?t/

Noun

robot (plural robots)

1. A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:robot

   Hypernym: automaton

   Hyponym: android
2. (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
3. (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.
4. (South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
5. (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
6. (dance) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.

Hyponyms

• swarm robot

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ?? (robot)

Translations

See also

• artificial intelligence
• computer
• cyborg
• domotics
• pedipulator
• robot revolution

Further reading

• robot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “robot”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “robot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• boort, torob

References

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r???.b?t/

Noun

robot (plural robotte)

1. robot
2. traffic light
   • 1997, Riana Scheepers, Dogters van Afrika. Verhale oor Suid-Afrikaanse Vroue, Tafelberg (publ.).

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ro.bot/

Noun

robot anim

1. robot

Declension

Further reading

• “robot” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “robot” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

From Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

robot m (plural robots)

1. robot

Related terms

• robòtica

Cebuano

Etymology

From English robot, from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel ?apek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ro?bot

Noun

robot

1. a machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed
2. an intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal
3. (figuratively) a person who does not seem to have any emotions
4. a style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

Czech

Etymology

From robota. Coined by Josef ?apek, it first appeared in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. by his brother Karel ?apek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?robot]

Noun

robot m

1. robot

Declension

Related terms

• robotika f
• robotický
• robota f
• robit
• rob m

Further reading

• robot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• robot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Ultimately from Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?o?b?d]

Noun

robot c (singular definite robotten, plural indefinite robotter)

1. robot

References

• “robot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, likely from German Robot, from Czech robot. The plural is likely influenced by English or French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?.b?t/
• Hyphenation: ro?bot

Noun

robot m (plural robots or robotten, diminutive robotje n)

1. robot [from 1921]

   Synonym: kunstmens

Derived terms

• robotarm
• robotauto
• robotvliegtuig

Related terms

• arbeid
• bot
• robotica
• robotisch

Anagrams

• boort

French

Etymology

From Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bo/

Noun

robot m (plural robots)

1. robot

Derived terms

• robot boulanger

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?robot]
• Hyphenation: ro?bot
• Rhymes: -ot

Etymology 1

From Bavarian robat, robold, from Czech robota (“forced labour, drudgery”).

Noun

robot (plural robotok)

1. (historical) socage, forced labour
2. (figuratively) hard work, drudgery

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Czech robot, from robota (“forced labour, drudgery”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel ?apek.

Noun

robot (plural robotok)

1. robot

Declension

Same as above.

Derived terms

Further reading

• (socage; drudgery): robot in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Czech robot

Noun

robot m (invariable)

1. robot
2. (computing) bot

Derived terms

• robot da cucina

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???o?.b?t/
• Hyphenation: ro?bot

Noun

robot (plural: robot dem, quantified: robot)

1. An illegal taxi.

See also

• route taxi

Latvian

Verb

robot (tr., 2nd conj., pres. roboju, robo, robo, past roboju)

1. to notch
2. to jag
3. to make an incision (on)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• grubu?ot
• izrobot

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Czech robota

Noun

robot m (definite singular roboten, indefinite plural roboter, definite plural robotene)

1. a robot

References

• “robot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Czech robota

Noun

robot m (definite singular roboten, indefinite plural robotar, definite plural robotane)

1. a robot

References

• “robot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.b?t/

Noun

robot m inan

1. robot

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) robotyka

Further reading

• robot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

robot m (plural robots)

1. Alternative form of robô

Romanian

Etymology

From French robot, from Czech robot.

Noun

robot m (plural robo?i)

1. robot

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rôbot/
• Hyphenation: ro?bot

Noun

r?bot m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. robot

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Czech robot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?bó?t/

Noun

rob??t m anim

1. robot

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From English robot, from Czech.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?bot/, [ro???ot?]

Noun

robot m (plural robots)

1. robot

Derived terms

• retrato robot
• robot de cocina

Related terms

Swedish

Noun

robot c

1. robot
2. missile

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Czech robot via French or English.

Noun

robot (definite accusative robotu, plural robotlar)

1. robot [from 1933]

Declension

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “robot”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

English

Etymology

Blend of female +? bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?mb?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fembot (plural fembots)

1. (science fiction) A robot in female form.
   • 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ?ISBN [1]

     The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fembot.
   1. (specifically) A female sexbot.
2. (derogatory) A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
   • 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ?ISBN [2]

     [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.

   • 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge, p. 3, ?ISBN [3]

     Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.

Synonyms

• (robot): gynoid, robotess
• (unthinking woman): Stepford

Translations