roubar

• arroubar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese roubar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin raubāre, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Compare Portuguese roubar, Spanish robar, English rob.

• IPA^(key): /rowˈbaɾ/ [rowˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

roubar (first-person singular present roubo, first-person singular preterite roubei, past participle roubado)

1. (transitive) to steal
   • 1385, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 247:

     Outrosí, os rapases do [... escud]eiros e ofiçiaes rouban e furtan quanto achan nas ortas e nas chousas e leuan os allos e uerças e ortariça sen diñeiros

     Also, the servants of squires and officials steal and rob everything they find in the gardens and enclosures, and carry away garlics and greens and vegetables with no money

2. (transitive) to rob
3. (transitive) to deprive

• roubo

• “roubar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “roubar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “roub”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “roubar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “roubar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “roubar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese roubar, from Late Latin raubāre, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną.

• Hyphenation: rou‧bar

roubar (first-person singular present roubo, first-person singular preterite roubei, past participle roubado)

1. (transitive) to steal (to take illegally or without permission)

   Ele roubou uma carteira do bolso de um pedestre.

   He stole a wallet out of a pedestrian's pocket.

2. (transitive) to rob (to steal objects from a location)

   Chegamos de viagem e vimos que roubaram nossa casa.

   We arrived from a trip and saw that someone robbed our house.

3. (intransitive) to cheat (to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation) [with em ‘at something’]

   O cassino expulsou o jogador que estava roubando no pôquer.

   The casino expelled the player who was cheating at poker.

4. (transitive, figurative) to seduce (someone who is in another relationship)

   Esse cara quer roubar minha mulher.

   This guy wants to steal my wife.

5. (transitive, figurative) to deprive, rob (someone or something) of (its qualities)

   O tempo roubara sua beleza.

   Time had stolen her beauty.

• (to steal): afanar, apropriar-se de, escamotear, furtar, larapiar, surripiar
• (to cheat): trapacear
• (to seduce): seduzir
• (to deprive of qualities): tirar

• rouba-monte
• arroubar

• roubada
• roubado
• roubador
• roubalheira
• roubo

• “roubar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “roubar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025