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rubble
English
Etymology
From Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (bits of stone). Ultimately presumably from Proto-Germanic *raub- (“to break”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???b.?l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
rubble (countable and uncountable, plural rubbles)
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 72]:
- The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 72]:
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- 1855, Sir Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology
- The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified
- 1855, Sir Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology
- (Britain, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
Derived terms
- reduce to rubble
- rubblestone
- rubblework
Related terms
- rubbish
Translations
References
Anagrams
- beblur, burble, lubber, rebulb
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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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