robin

See also: Robin

English

Etymology 1

Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).

A European robin, Erithacus rubecula

An American robin, Turdus migratorius

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒ.bɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
• Hyphenation: rob‧in

Noun

robin (plural robins)

1. Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
   2. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
      • 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

        As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.

   4. An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
2. (historical) A trimming in front of a dress.

Usage notes

The American robin is larger and quite different from the European one: English settlers in America named it from its red breast.

Synonyms

• (all senses): redbreast, robin redbreast
• (the European robin): ruddock

Derived terms

• American robin
• Australasian robin
• cock-robin
• cock-robin shop
• eastern yellow robin
• flyrobin
• forest robin
• golden bush robin
• golden robin
• gold robin
• Japanese robin
• magpie-robin
• mangrove robin
• mountain robin
• Natal robin
• North American robin
• Oregon robin
• Peking robin
• Pekin robin
• ragged robin
• robin-breast
• robin-chat
• robin dipper
• robin egg blue
• Robin Hill
• robinlike
• robin redbreast
• robin-run-in-the-grass
• robin-run-in-the-hedge
• robin-run-the-hedge
• robin snipe
• robin snow
• rose robin
• round robin
• round-robin story
• rufous bush robin
• rufous scrub robin
• rufous-tailed scrub robin
• scrub robin
• sea robin
• swamp robin
• wake robin
• wakerobin
• wake-robin
• white-throated robin

Translations

any bird called robin in English

• Albanian: gushëkuq (sq) m
• Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏉᏉ (tsisquoquo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥 / 知更鸟 (zh) (zhīgēngniǎo)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• French: grive (fr) f
• Māori: pītoitoi
• Portuguese: tordo (pt) m

Erithacus rubecula

• Albanian: gushëkuq (sq) m, gushar (sq) m, grykakuq (sq) m, gushëspec m, gjinokuq (sq) m, cenakuq m
• Arabic: أَبُو الحِنَّاء m (ʔabū l-ḥinnāʔ)
• Armenian: արշալուսիկ (aršalusik)
• Asturian: raitán (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: şəfəq bülbülü
• Basque: txantxangorri
• Belarusian: малінаўка (malinawka)
• Breton: boc'hruz (br)
• Bulgarian: червеношийка (bg) f (červenošijka)
• Catalan: pit-roig (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏉᏉ (tsisquoquo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥 / 知更鸟 (zh) (zhīgēngniǎo), 歐亞鴝 / 欧亚鸲 (zh) (ōuyàqú)

• Cornish: rudhek
• Czech: červenka (cs) f
• Danish: rødhals (da), rødkælk c
• Dutch: roodborstje (nl) n
• Esperanto: ruĝgorĝulo, rubekolo
• Estonian: punarind (et)
• Faroese: bringureyði m
• Finnish: punarinta (fi)
• French: rouge-gorge (fr) m, rouge-gorge familier (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: readboarstke (fy)

• Galician: paporrubio (gl), paporroibo (gl), pisco (gl), paifoco (gl) m
• Georgian: გულწითელა (gulc̣itela)
• German: Rotkehlchen (de) n
• Greek: κοκκινολαίμης (el) m (kokkinolaímis)

  Ancient Greek: ἐρίθακος m (eríthakos)

• Hebrew: אֲדֹם־הֶחָזֶה (adom-hekhazé)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: vörösbegy (hu)
• Icelandic: glóbrystingur (is) m
• Irish: spideog (ga) f
• Italian: pettirosso (it) m
• Japanese: ヨーロッパコマドリ (ja) (Yōroppa komadori)
• Korean: 꼬까울새 (kkokkaulsae)
• Latvian: sarkanrīklīte
• Lithuanian: liepsnelė (lt)
• Maltese: pitirross
• Norman: rouoge-gorge m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødstrupe (no)

  Nynorsk: raudstrupe

• Occitan: papach-rós (oc), barbarós (oc), rigal (oc)
• Old English: rudduc m
• Polish: rudzik (pl) m, raszka (pl) f, rudzik zwyczajny m
• Portuguese: pisco-de-peito-ruivo (pt) m
• Romanian: gușă-roșie (ro) f, măcăleandru (ro) m
• Romansh: (Rumantsch Grischun) puppen cotschen m, (Sursilvan) puppen tgietschen m, (Sutsilvan) pupencotschen m, (Surmiran) poppen cotschen m, (Puter, Vallader) gulacotschen m
• Russian: заря́нка (ru) f (zarjánka), мали́новка (ru) f (malínovka)
• Sami: guovssoloddi
• Scottish Gaelic: brù-dhearg
• Serbo-Croatian: crvendać
• Slovak: červienka f
• Slovene: taščica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sprjosk m

  Upper Sorbian: ročk m

• Spanish: petirrojo (es) m
• Swedish: rödhake (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kızılgerdan (tr)
• Vietnamese: oanh (vi), oanh châu Âu
• Volapük: redablötareitak, (Erithacus) reitak (vo)
• Walloon: rodje-goidje (wa) m or f, loudene (wa) f
• Welsh: robin goch f

Turdus migratorius — see American robin

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} gushëkuqi
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} заранка (zaranka)
• French: ^{(please verify)} merle (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} rubiette (fr) f (rare)
• Friulian: ^{(please verify)} petarňs, ^{(please verify)} scriç
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} glóbrystingur (is)
• Ladin: ^{(please verify)} pietcuecen
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} Rootbost m, ^{(please verify)} Rootböstje n
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} црвеногушка (crvenoguška)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} pitirross
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} papach rós, ^{(please verify)} papachrós
• Romani: ^{(please verify)} lolo-kolinako m, ^{(please verify)} loli-kolinaki f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} gușă-roșie (ro)
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} scraxarrùbiu, ^{(please verify)} pitturrarrùbiu, ^{(please verify)} brabarrùbia
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} црвендаћ, ^{(please verify)} crvendać
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} červienka
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mirlo (es) m
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} вільшанка f (vilʹšanka)

References

• European robin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Erithacus rubecula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Erithacus rubecula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• American robin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Turdus migratorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Turdus migratorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

robin (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.

Derived terms

• antirobin

Related terms

• robinin

See also

• round-robin

Anagrams

• Biron, Brion, inorb

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈro̞.βin]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrɔ.bin]
• IPA^(key): (Central, Northwestern) [ˈrɔ.βin]

Verb

robin

1. inflection of robar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.bɛ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Etymology 1

Familiar form of Robert.

Noun

robin m (plural robins)

1. (obsolete) sheep, calf

Derived terms

• robinet

Etymology 2

Derivative of robe, in the phrase homme de robe (“man of the gown”). robe +‎ -in.

Noun

robin m (plural robins)

1. (archaic, derogatory) lawyer

Further reading

• “robin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English robin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔbin/

Noun

robin f or m (not mutable, plural robinod)

1. (archaic) robin (Erithacus rubecula)

   Synonyms: robin goch, brongoch, bronrhuddyn, rhuddog, cochgam

   1. (current) passerine bird of one of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae)
2. horsefly, gadfly (Tabanus)

   Synonyms: pryf llwyd, cleren lwyd

Derived terms

passerine birds

• robin dorchgoch (“rufous-collared robin”)
• robin fronwyn Awstralia (“white-breasted robin”)
• robin fronwyn Papwa (“black-chinned robin”)
• robin goch (more common term for Erithacus rubecula)

other uses

• dail robin (“herb Robert; lords-and-ladies”)
• robin y diawl gwyllt, robin y gyrrwr (“horsefly”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “robin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies