Etymology
1. From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), 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 *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”).
2. cognates and related terms
3. Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave. See: Middle English Nouns '
robe', German Nouns '
Raub', Old English Nouns '
rēafian', Spanish Nouns '
ropa'.
Verbs referencing "robe"
Spanish Nouns
ropa, Catalan Nouns
roba, Italian Nouns
roba, Galician Nouns
roupa, Irish Nouns
róba.