rovar

Blend of rovátkolt +‎ barom, after the synonymous Latin insectum (“insect; literally, ‘notched one’”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrovɒr]
• Hyphenation: ro‧var
• Rhymes: -ɒr

rovar (plural rovarok)

1. insect

• rovar in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Inherited from Old Spanish robar (“to plunder”), from Late Latin raubāre.

rovar (Hebrew spelling רוב׳אר)^[1]

1. (transitive) to steal; to plunder (rob)

   Synonym: ganavear

   Coordinate term: ladrón

   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[1], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 9:

     Sus enemigos, sus bienes, le rovaron.
     De su bien si artaron i la espujaron ¹)
     I con croeldades su corason razgaron
     I eia no abandona sus tradisiones.
     Termine la aniada i sus maldisiones.

     Her foes stole her properties. They were satiated with her property, [then] they engaged her, and they cruelly ripped her heart, [yet] she abandoned not her traditions. End the year and its curses.