roubar
Meaning
- (transitive) to steal (to take illegally or without permission)
- (transitive) to rob (to steal objects from a location)
- (intransitive) to cheat (to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation)
- (figuratively,transitive) to seduce (someone who is in another relationship)
- (figuratively,transitive) to deprive, rob (someone or something) of (its qualities)
Frequency
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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