roubar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to steal (to take illegally or without permission)
  2. (transitive) to rob (to steal objects from a location)
  3. (intransitive) to cheat (to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation)
  4. (figuratively,transitive) to seduce (someone who is in another relationship)
  5. (figuratively,transitive) to deprive, rob (someone or something) of (its qualities)

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
rou‧bar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁo(w)ˈba(ʁ)/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese roubar, from Late Latin raubāre, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną.

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