róba

Borrowed from German Robe, from French robe, from Frankish *rauba. It seems also related to German Raub (“plunder, loot”), so it originally probably meant "seized clothes".^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈroːba]
• Hyphenation: ró‧ba
• Rhymes: -oːba

róba f

1. female evening dress, evening gown

• “róba”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “róba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• bóra

From Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”) (possibly via English robe), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewp- (“to tear, peel”).

róba m (genitive singular róba, nominative plural róbaí)

1. gown, robe

   Synonym: gúna

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “róba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “róba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “róba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “róba”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Borrowed from German Robe, from French robe, from Frankish *rauba. It seems also related to German Raub (“plunder, loot”), so it originally probably meant "seized clothes".

• IPA^(key): [ˈroːba]

róba f

1. female evening dress, evening gown

• “róba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025