robot

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• /ˈɹəʊ̯.bɒt/
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• dated: /ˈɹəʊ̯.bət/
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• /ˈɹoʊ̯.bɑt/
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• /ˈɹɔʊ̯.bɑt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈɹəʉ̯.bɔt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈɹɐ̞ʉ̯.bɔt/
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• South-Asia: /ro.boʈ/
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• rhymes with -əʊbɒt
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• rhymes with -əʊbət
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• CMU ARPABET: R OW1 B AA2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From German Robot, from a West Slavic language, ultimately related to Etymology 2, below.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3erbh- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h3órbhos Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas Proto-Slavic *orbъ Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei Proto-Slavic *-iti Proto-Slavic *orbiti Proto-Indo-European *-otéh2 Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ Proto-Slavic *-ota Proto-Slavic *orbota Old Czech robota Czech robota Czech robotbor. English robot Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef. Ultimately a cognate with Old English earfoþe and German Arbeit; see dialectal erf. Doublet of etymology 1. Related to English orphan, but with a -t- suffix from Proto-Slavic instead of the -an- from Ancient Greek. Compare Polish robotnik and Russian работник (rabotnik, “worker”), sometimes mistakenly cited as the direct source of the English word.

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.

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Albanian: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Amharic: ሮቦት (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Arabic: رُوبُوت (rōbōt) — intelligent mechanical being
• Arabic: رُوبُوط (rōbōṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Arabic: إِنْسَان آلِيّ (ʔinsān ʔāliyy) — intelligent mechanical being
• Arabic: رَجُل آلِيّ (rajul ʔāliyy) — intelligent mechanical being
• Armenian: ռոբոտ (ṙobot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Aromanian: rubot — intelligent mechanical being
• Asturian: robó — intelligent mechanical being
• Azerbaijani: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Basque: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Belarusian: ро́бат (róbat) — intelligent mechanical being
• Bengali: রোবট (rōboṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Bengali: যন্ত্রমানব (jontromanob) — intelligent mechanical being
• Bulgarian: робо́т (robót) — intelligent mechanical being
• Burmese: စက်ရုပ် (cak-rup) — intelligent mechanical being
• Catalan: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Cebuano: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Cherokee: ᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩ ᏴᏫ (talugisgi yvwi) — intelligent mechanical being
• Chinese Cantonese: 機械人 /机械人 (gei1 haai6 jan4) — intelligent mechanical being
• Chinese Cantonese: 機器人 /机器人 (gei1 hei3 jan4) — intelligent mechanical being
• Hakka Chinese: 機器人 /机器人 (kî-hi-ngìn) — intelligent mechanical being
• Chinese: 機器人 /机器人 (ki-khì-lâng) — intelligent mechanical being
• Chinese Mandarin: 機器人 /机器人 (jīqìrén) — intelligent mechanical being
• Chinese Mandarin: 機械人 /机械人 (jīxièrén) — intelligent mechanical being
• Teochew: 機器人 /机器人 (gi1 ki3 nang5) — intelligent mechanical being
• Czech: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Danish: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Dutch: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Esperanto: roboto — intelligent mechanical being
• Estonian: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Faroese: robottur — intelligent mechanical being
• Finnish: robotti — intelligent mechanical being
• French: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Galician: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Georgian: რობოტი (roboṭi) — intelligent mechanical being
• German: Roboter — intelligent mechanical being
• Greek: ρομπότ (rompót) — intelligent mechanical being
• Hausa: saƙago — intelligent mechanical being
• Hebrew: רוֹבּוֹט (robót) — intelligent mechanical being
• Hindi: रोबोट (roboṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Hindi: यंत्रमानव (yantramānav) — intelligent mechanical being
• Hungarian: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Icelandic: vélmenni — intelligent mechanical being
• Icelandic: róbot — intelligent mechanical being
• Ido: roboto — intelligent mechanical being
• Indonesian: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Irish: róbait — intelligent mechanical being
• Italian: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Japanese: ロボット (robotto) — intelligent mechanical being
• Japanese: 人造人間 (jinzō ningen) — intelligent mechanical being
• Kannada: ಯಂತ್ರಮಾನವ (yantramānava) — intelligent mechanical being
• Kazakh: робот (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Khmer: រូបយន្ត (ruupaʼyŭən) — intelligent mechanical being
• Korean: 로봇 (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Korean: 인조인간 (injoin'gan) — intelligent mechanical being
• Central Kurdish: ڕۆبۆت (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Northern Kurdish: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Kyrgyz: робот (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Lao: ຫຸ່ນຍົນ (hun nyon) — intelligent mechanical being
• Latin: robotum — intelligent mechanical being
• Latvian: robots — intelligent mechanical being
• Lithuanian: robotas — intelligent mechanical being
• Macedonian: робот (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Malagasy: rôbô — intelligent mechanical being
• Malay: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Māori: karetao — intelligent mechanical being
• Māori: karehiko — intelligent mechanical being
• Māori: rōpata — intelligent mechanical being
• Marathi: यंत्रमानव (yantramānav) — intelligent mechanical being
• Marathi: रोबोट (roboṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Marathi: रोबो (robo) — intelligent mechanical being
• Mongolian: робот (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Niuean: lopota — intelligent mechanical being
• Norman: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Norwegian Bokmål: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Norwegian Nynorsk: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Obolo: rọbọt — intelligent mechanical being
• Occitan: robòt — intelligent mechanical being
• Pashto: روبوټ (roboṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Iranian Persian: رُبات (robât) — intelligent mechanical being
• Iranian Persian: روبات (rôbât) — intelligent mechanical being
• Polish: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Portuguese: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Portuguese: robô — intelligent mechanical being
• Quechua: antapunqu — intelligent mechanical being
• Romanian: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Russian: ро́бот (róbot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Samoan: ropota — intelligent mechanical being
• Santali: ᱨᱚᱵᱚᱴ (rôbôṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Serbo-Croatian: ро̏бот — intelligent mechanical being
• Serbo-Croatian: rȍbot — intelligent mechanical being
• Sinhalese: රොබෝ (robō) — intelligent mechanical being
• Slovak: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Slovene: róbot — intelligent mechanical being
• Spanish: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Sundanese: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Swahili: roboti — intelligent mechanical being
• Swedish: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Tagalog: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Tajik: робот (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Tamil: ரோபோ (rōpō) — intelligent mechanical being
• Tamil: தானியங்கி (tāṉiyaṅki) — intelligent mechanical being
• Tatar: робот (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Telugu: మరమనిషి (maramaniṣi) — intelligent mechanical being
• Thai: หุ่นยนต์ (hùn-yon) — intelligent mechanical being
• Tibetan: མི་གཟུགས་འཕྲུལ་བྱད (mi gzugs 'phrul byad) — intelligent mechanical being
• Tigrinya: ሮቦት (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Turkish: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Turkmen: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Ukrainian: ро́бот (róbot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Urdu: روبوٹ (roboṭ) — intelligent mechanical being
• Urdu: روبالَہ (robāla) — intelligent mechanical being
• Uyghur: روبوت (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Uzbek: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Vietnamese: người máy — intelligent mechanical being
• Vietnamese: rô-bốt — intelligent mechanical being
• Vietnamese: rô bốt — intelligent mechanical being
• Vietnamese: rôbốt — intelligent mechanical being
• Vietnamese: rô-bô — intelligent mechanical being
• Vietnamese: rô bô — intelligent mechanical being
• Volapük: mekavamen — intelligent mechanical being
• Welsh: robot — intelligent mechanical being
• Yiddish: ראָבאָט (robot) — intelligent mechanical being
• Zhuang: gihgiyinz — intelligent mechanical being
• Zulu: isithununu — intelligent mechanical being
• Catalan: robot — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Cebuano: robot — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Galician: robot — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Italian: robot — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Italian: automa — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Khmer: មនុស្សយន្ត (mɔnuh yŭən) — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Portuguese: robô — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Russian: ро́бот (róbot) — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Spanish: robot — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Ukrainian: рóбот (róbot) — person who does not seem to have any emotions
• Bulgarian: робо́т (robót) — machine to perform complex tasks
• Cebuano: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Czech: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Danish: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Esperanto: roboto — machine to perform complex tasks
• Ancient Greek: αὐτόματον (autómaton) — machine to perform complex tasks
• Italian: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Italian: automa — machine to perform complex tasks
• Latin: automatum — machine to perform complex tasks
• Latin: automaton — machine to perform complex tasks
• Māori: karetao — machine to perform complex tasks
• Marathi: रोबॉट (robŏṭ) — machine to perform complex tasks
• Marathi: रोबो (robo) — machine to perform complex tasks
• Norwegian Bokmål: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Norwegian Nynorsk: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Polish: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Portuguese: robô — machine to perform complex tasks
• Russian: ро́бот (róbot) — machine to perform complex tasks
• Swedish: robot — machine to perform complex tasks
• Ukrainian: рóбот (róbot) — machine to perform complex tasks