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bot

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English

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Etymology 1

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Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).

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Noun

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bot (plural bots)

  1. The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
    • 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:
      One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
    • 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:
      Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
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Etymology 2

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From bottom.

Verb

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bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (British, slang) To bugger.
  2. (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
    Synonym: (UK) bum
    Can I bot a smoke?
    Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.

Etymology 3

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Clipping of robot.

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bot (plural bots)

  1. (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
    • 1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130:
      I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
    • 2005, Greg Bear, Quantico‎[1], page 71:
      As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
    • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void‎[2]:
      The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
  2. (computing) A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
    • 2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference‎[3], page 42:
      The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
    • 2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style‎[4], page 91:
      He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.
    • 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies‎[5], page 59:
      Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.
    • 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic‎[6], retrieved 2021-09-01:
      Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.
  3. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
    Synonyms: NPC, AI
    • 2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
      Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.
  4. (video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.
    • 2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer‎[7]:
      "That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."
  5. (Internet slang, often derogatory) A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:jerk
    • [2024 June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, in New Scientist‎[8], →ISSN, retrieved 2024-06-10:
      The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with[.]]
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bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
    Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
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  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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Afrikaans

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch bot, from botte. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ.

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bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

  1. sprout, bud

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bot (present bot, present participle bot, past participle gebot)

  1. to sprout, to bud
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Etymology 2

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From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *buttaz.

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bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)

  1. blunt, dull (of an object)
  2. obtuse, dull, stupid
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bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

  1. a bone
  2. (fish) flounder, fluke, butt
    Synonym: botvis
  3. (parasitic flatworm) fluke
    Synonym: slakwurm

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bot

  1. Alternative spelling of bod

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Bislama

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Etymology

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From English boat.

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bot

  1. boat

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Deverbal from botar.

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bot m (plural bots)

  1. jump, leap
    Synonyms: salt, saltiró
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”).

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bot m (plural bots)

  1. boat
    Synonyms: barca, vaixell

Etymology 3

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Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”), probably of Ancient Greek origin.

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bot m (plural bots)

  1. wineskin
    Synonym: odre
  2. bagpipes
    Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
  3. sunfish (large marine fish of the family Molidae)
    Synonym: mola
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bot

  1. inflection of botre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.

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bot m

  1. blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch bot, but, butte, related to Middle Low German but (“dull, plump, coarse”), West Frisian bot (“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).

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bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

  2. not sharp, blunt, dull
    De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen.
    The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.
  3. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
    Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens.
    His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.
Declension
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Declension of bot
uninflected bot
inflected botte
comparative botter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bot botter het botst
het botste
indefinite m./f. sing. botte bottere botste
n. sing. bot botter botste
plural botte bottere botste
definite botte bottere botste
partitive bots botters —
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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
  • → Papiamentu: bòt

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch but. Cognate with English butt, German Butt, in all senses.

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bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  2. bone
    Synonyms: been, knekel, knook
    De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebroken bot heeft.
    The doctor has determined that he has a broken bone.
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Etymology 3

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From Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with English butt (“flatfish”), German Butt (“lefteye flounder”), West Frisian bot (“flounder”).

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bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  2. flounder (a type of fish)
    Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen.
    I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.
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  • Afrikaans: bot
  • → West Frisian: bot

Etymology 4

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From French botte.

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bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  1. (Belgium) boot

Etymology 5

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Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

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bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

  1. a bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games)
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French

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Etymology 1

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From Middle French bot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“butt, stump, end”). If so, a doublet of but.

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bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)

  1. (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
    un pied bot ― a clubfoot
  2. (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
    une main bote ― a deformed hand

Etymology 2

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From English bot.

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bot m (plural bots)

  1. (computing) bot

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German

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bot

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From a Slavic, language, from Proto-Slavic *bъtъ.

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bot (plural botok)

  1. stick, staff
  2. walking stick, cane
    Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bot botok
accusative botot botokat
dative botnak botoknak
instrumental bottal botokkal
causal-final botért botokért
translative bottá botokká
terminative botig botokig
essive-formal botként botokként
essive-modal — —
inessive botban botokban
superessive boton botokon
adessive botnál botoknál
illative botba botokba
sublative botra botokra
allative bothoz botokhoz
elative botból botokból
delative botról botokról
ablative bottól botoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		boté botoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		botéi botokéi
Possessive forms of bot
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. botom botjaim
2nd person sing. botod botjaid
3rd person sing. botja botjai
1st person plural botunk botjaink
2nd person plural bototok botjaitok
3rd person plural botjuk botjaik

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  • bot in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bot in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Jamaican Creole

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Etymology

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Derived from English but.

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Preposition

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bot

  1. but
    Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.
    He warned you many times, but you didn't listen.

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  • bot at majstro.com

Javanese

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bot

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English bāt.

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bot (plural botes)

  1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
    1. A boat (a watercraft or vessel smaller than a ship).
    2. A boat stowed on a ship for utility purposes, especially for tendering.
  2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse búð.

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bot

  1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

Etymology 3

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From Old English batt.

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bot

  1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

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From Old English bōt.

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bot

  1. Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

Etymology 5

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From Old French bote.

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bot

  1. Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *bozdos (“tail, penis”) (compare Welsh both (“hub, nave”), Breton bod (“bush, shrub; branch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gwosdʰos (“piece of wood”), compare Proto-Slavic *gvozdь (“nail, tack, peg”).

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bot m

  1. tail
  2. penis

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Mutation

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Mutation of bot
radical lenition nasalization
bot bot
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/		 mbot

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Norwegian Bokmål

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From Old Norse bót.

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bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

  1. a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
  2. a remedy
  3. a patch

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Old Norse bót.

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bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

  1. a fine (as above)
  2. a remedy
  3. a patch

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).

Cognates
Cognate with Old Frisian bōte, Old Saxon bōta, Dutch boete, Old High German buoza (German Buße), Old Norse bōt (Swedish bot), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta).

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bōt f (nominative plural bōte)

  1. help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
    • Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
  2. mending, repair, improvement
    • ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
  3. compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
    • For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
  4. improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
    • Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted

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Declension of bōt (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative bōt bōta, bōte
accusative bōte bōta, bōte
genitive bōte bōta
dative bōte bōtum

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Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Vulgar Latin *padda, probably a Germanic loan from Frankish *paddā (“toad”). Compare Italian botta (“toad”), Old English padde (“toad”), Old Norse padda (“toad”). More at paddock.

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bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular bot, nominative plural boz or botz)

  1. toad (animal)
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Etymology 2

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From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).

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bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

  1. strike; hit; blow
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Etymology 3

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See bat.

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bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

  1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

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See bout.

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bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

  1. Alternative form of bout

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bot) (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
  • bot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')

Old Javanese

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat (compare Malay berat). Doublet of bwat and wrat.

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bot

  1. heavy
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat. Doublet of bwat and wwat.

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bot

  1. style, make
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  • "bot" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

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bōt f

  1. improvement
  2. benefit, utility
  3. cure
  4. compensation

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Declension of bōt (consonant stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bōt bōtin bø̄ter bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
accusative bōt bōtina, -ena bø̄ter bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
dative bōt bōtinni, -inne bōtum, -om bōtumin, -omen
genitive bōta(r) inna(r) bōta bōtanna

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Declension of bōt (i-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bōt bōtin bōti(r), -e(r) bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
accusative bōt bōtina, -ena bōti(r), -e(r) bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
dative bōt bōtinni, -inne bōtum, -om bōtumin, -omen
genitive bōta(r) bōtinna(r) bōta bōtanna

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Polish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Old Czech bot, from French botte.

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bot m inan (diminutive botek)

  1. ankle boot
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Declension of bot
singular plural
nominative bot boty
genitive bota botów
dative botowi botom
accusative bot boty
instrumental botem botami
locative bocie botach
vocative bocie boty

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Borrowed from English bot.

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bot m animal

  1. (computing) bot
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Declension of bot
singular plural
nominative bot boty
genitive bota botów
dative botowi botom
accusative bota boty
instrumental botem botami
locative bocie botach
vocative bocie boty

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  • bot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.te/

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bot m (plural bots)

  1. (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
  2. (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *botum, perhaps from Latin botulus or from a root *botium, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push, strike”).[1]

Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.

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bot n (plural boturi)

  1. (of animals) snout, mouth
  2. (of a person, vulgar) mouth
  3. bump
  4. hump
  5. (vulgar) blowjob
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bot botul boturi boturile
genitive-dative bot botului boturi boturilor
vocative botule boturilor
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  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 469

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From English bot.

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bot m (plural boți)

  1. bot
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bot botul boți boții
genitive-dative bot botului boți boților
vocative botule boților

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bot.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbot/ [ˈbot̪]
  • Rhymes: -ot
  • Syllabification: bot

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bot m (plural bots)

  1. bot (robot)

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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

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bot c

  1. fine (penalty in money)
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  • In newer usage, the indefinite plural böter has frequently been reinterpreted as a singular noun due to usage without an article. Thus, for example, the common phrase "betala böter" has shifted in meaning from "pay fines" to "pay a fine". This is unrecognized by language authorities, however.
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Declension of bot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bot bots
definite boten botens
plural indefinite böter böters
definite böterna böternas
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Etymology 2

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Originally the same word as etymology 1.

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bot c

  1. cure; remedy
  2. (religious) penance
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Declension of bot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bot bots
definite boten botens
plural indefinite boter boters
definite boterna boternas
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Etymology 3

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Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

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bot c

  1. bot (robot)
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Declension of bot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bot bots
definite botten bottens
plural indefinite bottar bottars
definite bottarna bottarnas
Declension of bot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bot bots
definite boten botens
plural indefinite botar botars
definite botarna botarnas

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

Noun

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bot

  1. thigh

Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From French botte.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

  1. boot

Etymology 2

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From English boat

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

  1. boat
    Synonym: tekne

Volapük

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Noun

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bot (nominative plural bots)

  1. boat

Declension

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declension of bot
singular plural
nominative bot bots
genitive bota botas
dative bote botes
accusative boti botis
vocative 1 o bot! o bots!
predicative 2 botu botus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

West Frisian

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Etymology 1

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From Old Frisian butie, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end piece”), related to English butt.

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Adjective

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bot

  1. curt, blunt, rude
  2. dull (as a knife)
Inflection
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Inflection of bot
uninflected bot
inflected botte
comparative botter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bot botter it botst
it botste
indefinite c. sing. botte bottere botste
n. sing. bot botter botste
plural botte bottere botste
definite botte bottere botste
partitive bots botters —
Further reading
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  • “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

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bot

  1. very, quite
Further reading
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  • “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

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Uncertain. Possibly derived from bot (“blunt-headed fish”), in which case ultimately from the source of Etymology 1 above. Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

  1. flounder (a type of fish)
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