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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]
róba f
- female evening dress, evening gown
- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “róba”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 596
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)
- róba a chur ar, róbáil (“robe”, verb)
- róba folctha (“bathrobe”)
- 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, 2013-2024
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".
róba f
- 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, 2024