different between win vs rob

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: wynn, Nguyen, winne

Etymology 1

From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil, trouble oneself; resist, oppose, contradict; fight, strive, struggle, rage; endure”) (compare Old English ?ewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-Germanic *winnan? (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.

Verb

win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past and past participle won or (obsolete) wan)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one kny?t at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght
2. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
   • c. 17th century, unknown author, The Baron of Brackley (traditional folk song)

     I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.
3. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
4. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

5. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
   • 1589, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3

     She is a woman; therefore to be won.
6. (intransitive) To achieve victory.

7. (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.

8. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).

9. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.

10. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”), from Proto-Germanic *winn? (“labour, struggle, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain”), Dutch gewin (“profit, gain”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. An individual victory.

   Antonym: loss

   Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
2. (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.

   Antonym: fail

3. (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
4. (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English wynne, winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunj? (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).

Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight”), archaic Dutch wonne (“joy”), Danish ynde (“grace”), Icelandic yndi (“delight”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.

Derived terms

• worldly win

Etymology 4

From wind.

Verb

win

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.

References

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English win.

Noun

win

1. win
2. victory
3. prize

Verb

win

1. to win

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n
• IPA^(key): /??n/

Verb

win

1. first-person singular present indicative of winnen
2. imperative of winnen

Kis

Noun

win

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

Etymology 2

From Old English winn, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winn?, *winnan?; akin to winnen. Reinforced by earlier iwin, from Old English ?ewinn.

Alternative forms

• winn, winne, wynne, wunne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /win/

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. benefit, gain, profit
2. (Late Middle English) wealth, riches
3. (Early Middle English) discord, conflict, turmoil
4. (Early Middle English, rare) exertion, work

Descendants

• English: win

References

• “win, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2020.

Etymology 3

Verb

win

1. Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Etymology 4

Noun

win

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

North Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wind

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian w?n, from Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wine

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num.

Noun

w?n m

1. wine

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wijn
  • Dutch: wijn
    • Afrikaans: wyn
  • Limburgish: wien

Further reading

• “w?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?n from Latin v?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?n/
• Homophone: wynn

Noun

w?n n

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• æppelw?n
• w?ntr?ow

Descendants

• Middle English: wyn, win, wine, wyne, wijn, vine, vyn, vyne, wyen, weyn, wynne
  • English: wine (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: wyne

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?in/

Noun

win f

1. genitive plural of wina

Noun

win n

1. genitive plural of wino

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Related terms

• winim

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Derived terms

• big win

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?n/

Noun

win

1. Soft mutation of gwin.

Mutation

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)

1. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.

2. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
3. (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.

4. (transitive, slang) To burgle.
   • 2008, National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Sept 4, 2008

     Her house was robbed.

5. (transitive, Britain, slang) To steal.

   That chav robbed my phone!

6. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
7. (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)

1. 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 

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (historical) slave
2. (historical) serf
3. prisoner of war
4. (figurative, derogatory) servant

rob m (indefinite plural rob, definite singular robi, definite plural robtë)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. (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

1. genitive plural of roba

Etymology 3

Verb

rob

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. 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?)

1. 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 ????)

1. slave

Declension

References

• “rob” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rop]

Verb

rob

1. second-person singular imperative of robi?

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *r?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ró?p/

Noun

r??b m inan

1. 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

1. (obsolete) slave

   Synonym: súženj

Spanish

Etymology

See arrope

Noun

rob m (plural robes)

1. fruit syrup

Related terms

• arrope