robot
English
/ˈɹəʊbɒt/, /ˈɹoʊbɑt/, /ˈɹoʊbət/
noun
Definitions
- A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.
- (chiefly) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
- (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.
- (South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
- (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
- (dance) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
Etymology
Borrowed from Czech robot root from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (change ownership, change allegiance status ownership, change evolve status, orphan, child slave servant).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃erbʰ-
Gloss
change ownership, change allegiance status ownership, change evolve status, orphan, child slave servant
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antirobot English
- biorobot English
- biorobotics English
- microrobot English
- microrobotics English
- millirobot English
- multirobot English
- nanorobot English
- nanorobotics English
- neurorobotics English
- robo- English
- roboid English
- roboteer English
- robotess English
- robothood English
- robotic English
- roboticide English
- robotics English
- robotise English
- robotism English
- robotization English
- robotize English
- robotkind English
- robotlike English
- robotocracy English
- robotology English
- robotry English
- sociorobotics English
- soft English
- soft robot English
- telerobot English
- telerobotics English
- robotti Finnish
- orbus Latin
- Robot German
- Roboter German
- Saugroboter German
- robot Italian
- robot French
- робот Russian
- robot Spanish, Castilian
- robotizar Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁erbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃erbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃órbʰos Proto-Indo-European
- robot Norwegian Bokmål
- *arbaidiz Proto-Germanic
- *arbaz Proto-Germanic
- *arbijaną Proto-Germanic
- *arbiją Proto-Germanic
- ロボット Japanese
- robot Polish
- robot Norwegian Nynorsk
- comharba Irish
- arfkaup Old Norse
- arfsal Old Norse
- arfsalsmaðr Old Norse
- arfskipti Old Norse
- arfskot Old Norse
- arftaka Old Norse
- arftakari Old Norse
- arftaki Old Norse
- arftǫkukarl Old Norse
- arftǫkumaðr Old Norse
- *orbota Proto-Slavic
- *orbę Proto-Slavic
- *orbъ Proto-Slavic
- rob Czech
- robot Czech
- robota Czech
- robův Czech
- روبوت Arabic
- rob Serbo-Croatian
- robot Catalan, Valencian
- रोबोट Hindi
- որբ Armenian
- robot Cebuano
- որբ Old Armenian
- robot Turkish
- comarbbae Old Irish
- orbbae Old Irish
- robot Afrikaans
- робот Bulgarian
- *kom- Proto-Celtic
- *orbyom Proto-Celtic
- робот Macedonian
- робот Ukrainian
- robòt Occitan
- 로보트 Korean
- 로봇 Korean
- робат Belarusian
- robot Slovene
- রোবট Bengali
- robat Bavarian
- soft
- robo-
- roboid
- robotic
- robotry
- biorobot
- robotism
- robotise
- robotics
- robotess
- roboteer
- robotize
- robotlike
- antirobot
- robotkind
- nanorobot
- telerobot
- robothood
- roboticide
- soft robot
- millirobot
- microrobot
- robotology
- multirobot
- robotocracy
- biorobotics
- nanorobotics
- robotization
- telerobotics
- sociorobotics
- neurorobotics
- microrobotics