robot

1997, Riana Scheepers, Dogters van Afrika. Verhale oor Suid-Afrikaanse Vroue, Tafelberg (publ.).
As die robotte na groen oorslaan, brul hulle en storm vorentoe.

When the traffic lights switch to green, they roar and storm forward.


robot

robot (absolutive indefinite)
robota (absolutive indefinite singular)
robotak (absolutive indefinite plural)
robotek (ergative indefinite)
robotak (ergative indefinite singular)
robotek (ergative indefinite plural)
roboti (dative indefinite)
robotari (dative indefinite singular)
robotei (dative indefinite plural)
roboten (genitive indefinite)
robotaren (genitive indefinite singular)
roboten (genitive indefinite plural)
robotekin (comitative indefinite)
robotarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
robotekin (comitative indefinite plural)
robotengatik (causative indefinite)
robotarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
robotengatik (causative indefinite plural)
robotentzat (benefactive indefinite)
robotarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
robotentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
robotez (indefinite instrumental)
robotaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
robotez (indefinite instrumental plural)
robotengan (indefinite inessive)
robotarengan (indefinite inessive singular)
robotengan (indefinite inessive plural)
robotengana (allative indefinite)
robotarengana (allative indefinite singular)
robotengana (allative indefinite plural)
robotenganaino (indefinite terminative)
robotarenganaino (indefinite singular terminative)
robotenganaino (indefinite plural terminative)
robotenganantz (directive indefinite)
robotarenganantz (directive indefinite singular)
robotenganantz (directive indefinite plural)
robotenganako (destinative indefinite)
robotarenganako (destinative indefinite singular)
robotenganako (destinative indefinite plural)
robotengandik (ablative indefinite)
robotarengandik (ablative indefinite singular)
robotengandik (ablative indefinite plural)
robotik (indefinite partitive)
robot-tzat (indefinite prolative)


robot

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

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

a style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

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 Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef.


robot

robot (nominative singular)
roboti (nominative plural)
robota (genitive singular)
robotů (genitive plural)
robotovi (dative singular)
robotu (dative singular)
robotům (dative plural)
robota (accusative singular)
roboty (accusative plural)
robote (singular vocative)
roboti (plural vocative)
robotovi (locative singular)
robotu (locative singular)
robotech (locative plural)
robotem (instrumental singular)
roboty (instrumental plural)

From robota. Coined by Czech painter and writer Josef Čapek, it first appeared in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. by his brother Karel Čapek.


robot

robot (nominative singular)
roboty (nominative plural)
roboti (nominative plural)
robotu (genitive singular)
robota (genitive singular)
robotů (genitive plural)
robotu (dative singular)
robotovi (dative singular)
robotům (dative plural)
robot (accusative singular)
robota (accusative singular)
roboty (accusative plural)
robote (singular vocative)
roboty (plural vocative)
roboti (plural vocative)
robotu (locative singular)
robotovi (locative singular)
robotech (locative plural)
robotem (instrumental singular)
roboty (instrumental plural)

desctree

→ English: robot
→ Arabic: رُوبُوت (rūbūt), رُوبُوط (rūbūṭ)
→ Hindi: रोबोट (roboṭ)
→ Japanese: ロボット (robotto)
→ Korean: 로봇 (robot)
→ Persian: رُبات (robât), روبات (rôbât)
→ Swahili: roboti
→ Welsh: robot

→ French: robot
→ Italian: robot
→ Portuguese: robô
→ Romanian: robot
→ Turkish: robot


robot

head

robot c (singular definite robotten, plural indefinite robotter)

robotten (definite singular)
robotter (indefinite plural)


robot

nl-noun

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

robots (plural)
robotten (plural)
robotje (diminutive neuter)

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


robot

“I say again, down with the robot!—he is a dog who yields it!”

1849, Littell's Living Age, volume 23, page 309:

Although the robot varied from region to region, it was rarely less than burdensome.

2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 159:

(now historical) A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.

From German Robot, from a West Slavic language, ultimately related to Etymology 2, below.


robot

Young Rossum invented a worker with a minimum amount of requirements. He had to simplify him. He rejected everything that did not contribute directly to the progress of work—everything that makes man more expensive. In fact, he rejected man and made the Robot. My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are, they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul.

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act I, page 17:

The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.

2010 January 26, Tom Chivers, Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph:

(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

We have a robot in the house that does the vacuuming.

It's painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots, equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.

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

Straight society tries to change us by several means. Most of the time, it is mental torture, though physical abuse is not uncommon. We are programmed to be straight starting from the day we are born, and every action, word, and feeling must conform to the straight image. If we DO decide to be free rather than to be robots, here are some of the consequences.

1973 December 22, Satya, “It Is Not We Who Must Change”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 3:

Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify.

2006, Murray N. Rothbard, Making Economic Sense, page xiv:

(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.

(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.

desc

→ Arabic: رُوبُوت (rūbūt), رُوبُوط (rūbūṭ)

→ Hindi: रोबोट (roboṭ)

→ Japanese: ロボット (robotto)

→ Korean: 로봇 (robot)

→ Persian: رُبات (robât), روبات (rôbât)

→ Swahili: roboti

→ Welsh: robot

robot

Internet Archive
Josef Čapek
Karel Čapek
R.U.R.

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


robot

One anonymous message addressed to "fellow robots" hoped readers would have "an enjoyable Elliot Rodger day"—a reference to the shooter who killed six near a Santa Barbara university last year.

2015 October 1, David Kravets, “Ominous messages left on 4chan day before Oregon college killings [Updated]”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

Posters on the board are locked in an ongoing debate about who can be one of them— a "robot." Can white guys be robots, despite their privilege? Can black guys? Women love them! It goes on and on. Only one rule really seems to be agreed upon: "If you have no friends and no gf you are a robot."

2015 October 3, Jay Hathaway, “How 4chan Trolled Two of Its Friends by Framing Them for the Oregon Mass Shooting”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2022-11-20:

It continued: "On October 5, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. CT, a fellow robot will take up arms against a university near Philadelphia. His cries will be heard, his victims will cower in fear, and the strength of the Union will decay a little more."

2015 October 5, Justin Wm. Moyer, anonymous quotee, “Philadelphia colleges on alert after 4chan post threatens violence Monday”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

As /r9k/ robots posted and reposted Pepes to playfully mock their status as grotesque outsiders whose very visage was disturbing to "normies," they ushered in a renaissance of frogs that soon appealed to all the netizens who every year had a little more in common with withdrawn, internet-soaked hikikomori.

2019, Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, 4chan) A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.

Referencing the origin of the name of the 4chan imageboard /r9k/ (created in 2008), so-called because it implements the ROBOT9000 algorithm by Randall Munroe to prevent the reposting of content.
Possibly overlapping with the sense of robot (“a person who does not seem to have any emotions”), alluding to autism, due to the prevalence of personal stories describing awkward or embarrassing situations on the board.


robot

Je ne suis pas un robot.

→ Italian: robot

→ Portuguese: robô

→ Romanian: robot

→ Turkish: robot


robot

robotok (plural)
robot (nominative singular)
robotok (nominative plural)
robotot (accusative singular)
robotokat (accusative plural)
robotnak (dative singular)
robotoknak (dative plural)
robottal (instrumental singular)
robotokkal (instrumental plural)
robotért (causal-final singular)
robotokért (causal-final plural)
robottá (singular translative)
robotokká (plural translative)
robotig (singular terminative)
robotokig (plural terminative)
robotként (essive-formal singular)
robotokként (essive-formal plural)
robotban (inessive singular)
robotokban (inessive plural)
roboton (singular superessive)
robotokon (plural superessive)
robotnál (adessive singular)
robotoknál (adessive plural)
robotba (illative singular)
robotokba (illative plural)
robotra (singular sublative)
robotokra (plural sublative)
robothoz (allative singular)
robotokhoz (allative plural)
robotból (elative singular)
robotokból (elative plural)
robotról (delative singular)
robotokról (delative plural)
robottól (ablative singular)
robotoktól (ablative plural)
roboté (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
robotoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
robotéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
robotokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
robotom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
robotjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
robotod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
robotjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
robotja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
robotjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
robotunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
robotjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
robototok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
robotjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
robotjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
robotjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

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


robot

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


robot

id-noun

robot (plural robot-robot, first-person possessive robotku, second-person possessive robotmu, third-person possessive robotnya)

robot-robot (plural)
robotku (first-person possessive)
robotmu (possessive second-person)
robotnya (possessive third-person)

Borrowed from French robot, from Czech robot.


robot

Unadapted borrowing from French robot, from Czech robot.


robot

Mi n'ave nuh big money fi spen' pon taxi. See one robot a come deh. Mek wi tek it.

I don't have a lot of money to spend on a cab. Here's an illegal taxi. Let's take that.

“Slang expression for a vehicle that is operating as a taxi without the proper license that is required. […]”

2013, “Robot – Patois Definition”, in Jamaican Patwah (in English):

jam-noun

robot (plural robot dem, quantified robot)


robot

head

robot (transitive, 2nd conjugation, present roboju, robo, robo, past roboju)

conjugation (second-person)
roboju (present)
robo (present)
roboju (past)
roboju (first-person indicative present singular)
roboju (first-person indicative past singular)
robošu (first-person future indicative singular)
robo (indicative present second-person singular)
roboji (indicative past second-person singular)
robosi (future indicative second-person singular)
robo (imperative second-person singular)
robo (indicative present singular third-person)
roboja (indicative past singular third-person)
robos (future indicative singular third-person)
lai robo (imperative singular third-person)
robojam (first-person indicative plural present)
robojām (first-person indicative past plural)
robosim (first-person future indicative plural)
robosim (first-person imperative plural)
robojat (indicative plural present second-person)
robojāt (indicative past plural second-person)
robosiet (future indicative plural second-person)
robosit (future indicative plural second-person)
robojiet (imperative plural second-person)
robo (indicative plural present third-person)
roboja (indicative past plural third-person)
robos (future indicative plural third-person)
lai robo (imperative plural third-person)
robojot (present renarrative)
robojošs (active adjectival participle participle-1 present)
esot robojis (past renarrative)
robodams (active adverbial participle participle-2 present)
robošot (future renarrative)
robojot (active adverbial participle participle-3 present)
lai robojot (imperative)
robojam (active participle participle-4 present)
robojis (active participle past)
robotu (conditional present)
robojams (participle passive present)
būtu robojis (conditional past)
robots (participle passive past)
jārobo (debitive indicative)
būt jārobo (debitive indicative)
robot (infinitive)
esot jārobo (conjunctive conjunctive-1 debitive)
nerobot (infinitive negative)
jārobojot (conjunctive conjunctive-2 debitive)
robošana (noun-from-verb)


robot

roboten (definite singular)
roboter (indefinite plural)
robotene (definite plural)


robot

roboten (definite singular)
robotar (indefinite plural)
robotane (definite plural)


robot

pl-noun

robot m animal (female equivalent (rare) robotka)

robotka (feminine rare)
robot (nominative singular)
roboty (nominative plural)
robota (genitive singular)
robotów (genitive plural)
robotowi (dative singular)
robotom (dative plural)
robot (accusative singular)
robota (accusative singular)
roboty (accusative plural)
robotem (instrumental singular)
robotami (instrumental plural)
robocie (locative singular)
robotach (locative plural)
robocie (singular vocative)
roboty (plural vocative)


robot

roboți (plural)
robot (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
robotul (accusative definite nominative singular)
roboți (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
roboții (accusative definite nominative plural)
robot (indefinite singular)
robotului (definite singular)
roboți (indefinite plural)
roboților (definite plural)
robotule (singular vocative)
roboților (plural vocative)


robot

rȍbot (canonical masculine)
ро̏бот (Cyrillic)
robot (nominative singular)
roboti (nominative plural)
robota (genitive singular)
robota (genitive plural)
robotu (dative singular)
robotima (dative plural)
robot (accusative singular)
robote (accusative plural)
robote (singular vocative)
roboti (plural vocative)
robotu (locative singular)
robotima (locative plural)
robotom (instrumental singular)
robotima (instrumental plural)


robot

robọ̑t (animate canonical masculine)
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robót (nominative singular)
robóta (dual nominative)
robóti (nominative plural)
robóta (genitive singular)
robótov (dual genitive)
robótov (genitive plural)
robótu (dative singular)
robótoma (dative dual)
robótom (dative plural)
robóta (accusative singular)
robóta (accusative dual)
robóte (accusative plural)
robótu (locative singular)
robótih (dual locative)
robótih (locative plural)
robótom (instrumental singular)
robótoma (dual instrumental)
robóti (instrumental plural)


robot

Borrowed from English robot, from Czech.


robot

Plåt-Niklas är en robot

a robot (machine that carries out complex tasks)

Holonym: robotsystem

Borrowed from Czech robot. Coined by Czech author Karel Čapek in 1920 via the play R.U.R.. Attested in Swedish since 1921.
In weaponry sense attested since 1944.


robot

Borrowed from English robot, from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”).


robot

Ellipsis of mutfak robotu (“food processor”).

head

robot (definite accusative robotu, plural robotlar)

robotu (accusative definite)
robotlar (plural)
robot (nominative singular)
robotlar (nominative plural)
robotu (accusative definite singular)
robotları (accusative definite plural)
robota (dative singular)
robotlara (dative plural)
robotta (locative singular)
robotlarda (locative plural)
robottan (ablative singular)
robotlardan (ablative plural)
robotun (genitive singular)
robotların (genitive plural)


robot

cy-noun

robot m (plural robotiaid or robotau, not mutable)

Borrowed from English robot, from Czech robot.