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Bob
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Appendix:Variations of "bob"
English
Etymology
Probably from a medieval hypocorism of en Rob.
Pronunciation
bŏb UK, en /bɒb/
en ɒb 1
bäb bôb US, en /bɑb/ /bɔb/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Bob.wav UK
Proper noun
s
en male Robert.
en Miramax founders leave Disney w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/mar/30/business.news 2005-03-30 Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.
en Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter w:Austin Daily Herald https://www.austindailyherald.com/2009/04/meet-number-16-bus-shelter/ 2009-04-25 For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys. https://web.archive.org/web/20250720181532/https://www.austindailyherald.com/2009/04/meet-number-16-bus-shelter/
en cryptography physics The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
en Party B
en Alice Eve Mallory Peggy Victor
en 2003 Matt Bishop Computer Security: Art and Science Addison-Wesley Professional 9780201440997 pfdBiJNfWdMC 247 The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.
en euphemistic God.
Derived terms
en Baghdad Bob Uncle Bob bobdownsite Bobert Bobster Bob Hope Bobs Creek Bobs Farm Fighting Bob Bob Cratchit Silent Bob Jim Bob Jay and Silent Bob
Related terms
en Bobby
en Dobbin
en Rob
en Robbie
Translations
diminutive of Robert
Albanian: sq Bob
Amharic: am ቦብ
Arabic: ar بُوب bōb
Armenian: hy Բոբ
Azerbaijani: az Bob
Bengali: bn বব
Bulgarian: bg Боб m
Catalan: ca Bob
Cherokee: chr ᏆᏆ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 巴布 baa1 bou3
Mandarin: cmn 鮑勃 Bàobó, cmn 巴布 Bābù
Czech: cs Bob
Danish: da Bob
Dutch: nl Bob
Esperanto: eo Robĉjo
French: fr Bob
Georgian: ka ბობ
German: de Bob
Greek: el Μπομπ
Hebrew: he בוֹב bob
Hindi: hi बॉब
Hungarian: hu Bob
Irish: ga Bob
Italian: it Bob
Japanese: ja ボブ bobu
Korean: ko ^밥
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb بۆب
Latvian: lv Bobs
Lithuanian: lt Bobas m
Macedonian: mk Боб
Malayalam: ml ബോബ്
Mongolian: mn Боб
Norwegian: no Bob
Persian: fa باب bâb
Portuguese: pt Beto m, pt Bob
Romanian: ro Bob m
Russian: ru Боб m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Боб m
Latin: sh Bob m
Sinhalese: si බොබ්
Slovak: sk Bob
Spanish: es Beto m, es Bob
Swedish: sv Bob
Tagalog: tl Bob
Thai: th บ็อบ bɔ̀p
Turkish: tr Bob
Ukrainian: uk Боб
Uzbek: uz Bob
Vietnamese: vi Bob
Welsh: cy Bob m
person or system receiving a message
Finnish: fi Bob
Portuguese: pt Bob m
Noun
A generic male person.
en It's so simple, even Bob from accounting could do it.
Synonyms
en Jack (generic male)
en Joe (generic male)
Derived terms
en Bob's your uncle
See also
en Alice
Further reading
Alice and Bob
Anagrams
en bbo obb
en calculator words
Dutch
Alternative forms
nl BOB bob
Etymology
Borrowed from nl en Bob.
First used to mean "dedicated driver" in 1995 campaigns by Belgisch Instituut voor de Verkeersveiligheid ("Belgian Road Safety Institute") and since 2001 also in the Netherlands. Although it was explicitly intended to be a placeholder name, it is often spelled as "BOB" or "bob" as a result of a common folk etymology interpreting it as an abbreviation for nl bewust nl onbeschonken nl bestuurder "deliberately unintoxicated driver".
Pronunciation
nl /bɔp/
nl Nl-Bob.ogg
nl Bob
nl ɔp 1
Proper noun
m
nl male, en Bob
designated driver
French
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-Bob.wav <<France>> (<<Toulouse>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Bob.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Bob.wav France
fr ɔb 1
Proper noun
m
fr male English
German
Pronunciation
de /bɔp/
de De-Bob.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de ɔp 1
Etymology 1
de :bor en:Bob
de en Bob.
Proper noun
m,s:-[with an article]
de male English
Etymology 2
de :bor en:bob
de en bob.
Noun
m,s,s
de sports bobsleigh, bob sled used in the sport of bobsleigh
de fashion bob haircut, bob
de Bubikopf
Declension
m,s,s
Further reading
de Hair
Italian
Pronunciation
bób
it ob 1
Proper noun
m
it male English
Portuguese
Pronunciation
bôb
pt ob oβ 1
Proper noun
m
pt cryptography en Bob person or system receiving a message
pt male English
Romanian
Pronunciation
ro /ˈbob/
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Bob.wav
ro ob 1
Etymology 1
From ro bob.
Proper noun
m
ro
Etymology 2
ro :bor en:Bob + 1
Proper noun
m
ro male English
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
es male English
Turkish
Pronunciation
tr /bop/
tr op 1
Proper noun
tr male English
Uzbek
باب Боб Bob باب
Proper noun
uz proper noun
the Báb
Derived terms
uz bobiy bobiylik