robe

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 *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewp- (“to tear, peel”). Akin to Old High German roup ("booty"; Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn ("to rob, steal"; Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊb/

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• Rhymes: -əʊb

robe (plural robes)

1. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
   • Shakespeare

     Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.

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-in to a bedroom.
4. The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.

• bathrobe

• → Scottish Gaelic: ròb

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

1. (transitive) To clothe; to dress.

• berobed

• Bero, Boer, Ebro, bore

robe

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈrobɛ/
• Rhymes: -obɛ
• Hyphenation: ro‧be

robe m

1. vocative singular of rob

• bore
• oreb

From French robe.

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

1. gown, robe

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔb/

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robe f (plural robes)

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

   Ce cheval a une robe isabelle.

3. wine's colour

• habit
• vêtement

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

• 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.

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

• bore, orbe

robe f

1. plural of roba

• orbe

• roobe, rob, robbe

From Old French robe, from Frankish *rouba, *rauba, from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą. Doublet of reif.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːb(ə)/, /ˈrɔb(ə)/

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.

• roben
• warderobe

• English: robe
  • → Scottish Gaelic: ròb
• Scots: robe

• “rō̆be (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

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 *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *reup- (“to tear, peel”).

robe f (plural robes)

1. (Jersey) dress
2. (Jersey) robe

• (dress): fro

• robbe, reube

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

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.

• robeor
• rober

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

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

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.