robar

From Late Latin raubāre.

robar (first-person singular indicative present robo, past participle robáu)

1. to rob, steal

Inherited from Late Latin raubāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [roˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [roˈbaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

robar (first-person singular present robo, first-person singular preterite robí, past participle robat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to rob, steal

• “robar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “robar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “robar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “robar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Late Latin raubāre.

robar (ORB, broad)

1. to steal

• dérober in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• robar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 724: “rubare; ruba” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1920: “voler” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*raubôn”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 677

From English Rover, a common name for dogs; the term was introduced in the early 19th century by sailors visiting Nauru.

robar

1. dog

Inherited from Late Latin raubāre.

• IPA^(key): /roˈbaɾ/ [roˈβ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ro‧bar

robar (first-person singular present robo, first-person singular preterite robé, past participle robado)

1. to rob
2. to steal

   Synonyms: hurtar, pelar

3. to draw (e.g., a card from an opponent in a game)
4. (obsolete) to kidnap, abduct

   Synonyms: raptar, secuestrar

"To rob X of Y" is translated as robar Y de X.

• hurtar

• “robar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• barro
• borra
• obrar

From Late Latin raubāre.

robar

1. (transitive) to steal, rob

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.