Bob

See also: bob, BOB, bób, and böb

English

Etymology

Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: bŏb, IPA^(key): /bɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb
• (US) enPR: bäb, bôb, IPA^(key): /bɑb/, /bɔb/

• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Bob

1. A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
2. (cryptography, physics) The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.

   Synonym: Party B

   Coordinate terms: Alice, Eve, Mallory, Peggy, Victor

   • 2003, Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 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.

Derived terms

• Baghdad Bob
• Bob Hope

 

Related terms

• Bobby
• Dobbin
• Rob
• Robbie

Translations

diminutive of Robert

• Albanian: Bob
• Amharic: ቦብ (bob)
• Arabic: بُوب (bōb)
• Armenian: Բոբ (Bob)
• Azerbaijani: Bob
• Bengali: বব (bn) (bobo)
• Bulgarian: Боб (Bob)
• Catalan: Bob (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴布 (baa¹ bou³)

  Mandarin: 鮑勃／鲍勃 (Bàobó), 巴布 (Bābù)

• Czech: Bob (cs)
• Danish: Bob
• Dutch: Bob (nl)
• Esperanto: Robĉjo
• French: Bob (fr)
• Georgian: ბობ (bob)
• German: Bob (de)
• Greek: Μπομπ (el) (Bomp)
• Hebrew: בוֹב (bob)
• Hindi: बॉब (bŏb)
• Hungarian: Bob (hu)
• Irish: Bob
• Italian: Bob
• Japanese: ボブ (ja) (bobu)
• Korean: 밥 (ko) (Bap)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بۆب (ckb) (bob)

• Latvian: Bobs
• Lithuanian: Bobas m
• Macedonian: Боб (Bob)
• Malayalam: ബോബ് (bōbŭ)
• Mongolian: Боб (Bob)
• Norwegian: Bob (no)
• Persian: باب (fa) (bâb)
• Portuguese: Beto m, Bob
• Romanian: Bob m
• Russian: Боб (ru) m (Bob)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Боб m

  Roman: Bob m

• Sinhalese: බොබ් (si) (bob)
• Slovak: Bob
• Spanish: Beto (es) m, Bob (es)
• Swedish: Bob (sv)
• Tagalog: Bob
• Thai: บ็อบ (bɔ̀p)
• Turkish: Bob
• Ukrainian: Боб (Bob)
• Uzbek: Bob
• Vietnamese: Bob
• Welsh: Bob m

person or system receiving a message

• Finnish: Bob (fi)
• Portuguese: Bob m

Noun

Bob (plural Bobs)

1. A generic male person. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• Jack (generic male)

Derived terms

• Bob's your uncle

See also

• Alice

Further reading

• Alice and Bob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• obb

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Bob
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Proper noun

Bob m

1. a male given name, Bob

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔb/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔb

Proper noun

Bob m

1. a male given name from English

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Proper noun

Bob m (proper noun, strong, genitive Bobs or (with an article) Bob)

1. a male given name from English

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbob/
• Rhymes: -ob

Proper noun

Bob m

1. a male given name from English

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbob/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbob/ [ˈboβ]

• Rhymes: -ob, -oβ

Proper noun

Bob m

1. (cryptography) Bob (person or system receiving a message)
2. a male given name from English

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbob]
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From bob.

Proper noun

Bob m (genitive/dative lui Bob)

1. a surname

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Bob.

Proper noun

Bob m (genitive/dative lui Bob)

1. a male given name from English

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbob/ [ˈboβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ob, -oβ

Proper noun

Bob m

1. a male given name from English

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bop/
• Rhymes: -op

Proper noun

Bob

1. a male given name from English