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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Robyn (as a given name)
Etymology
[edit]- (masculine given name): From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert
- (feminine given name): From the bird, robin
- (given name): From Germanic
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒbɪn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑbɪn/
- Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
- Hyphenation: Rob‧in
Proper noun
[edit]Robin (plural Robins)
- A unisex given name
- A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 186, column 1:
- They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue like the old Robin Hood of England
- 1785, Robert Burns, Rantin', Rovin' Robin:
- This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.
- 1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 12:
- Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change your name by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.
- 1949, Adela Rogers St. John, Never Again, and Other Stories, Doubleday, page 25:
- "We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.
- A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
- (rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Male given name
See also
[edit]Robin (comic book character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
[edit]Robin (plural Robins)
- (soccer) Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Robin m anim
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Declension
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English.
Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: Ro‧bin
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a unisex given name, equivalent to English Robin
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Recently borrowed from English.
Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Robin (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Robin | Robinit | |
genitive | Robinin | Robinien | |
partitive | Robinia | Robineja | |
illative | Robiniin | Robineihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Robin | Robinit | |
accusative | nom. | Robin | Robinit |
gen. | Robinin | ||
genitive | Robinin | Robinien | |
partitive | Robinia | Robineja | |
inessive | Robinissa | Robineissa | |
elative | Robinista | Robineista | |
illative | Robiniin | Robineihin | |
adessive | Robinilla | Robineilla | |
ablative | Robinilta | Robineilta | |
allative | Robinille | Robineille | |
essive | Robinina | Robineina | |
translative | Robiniksi | Robineiksi | |
abessive | Robinitta | Robineitta | |
instructive | — | Robinein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Robin is the 209th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,680 male individuals (and as a middle name to 471 more), and also belongs to 15 female individuals (and as a middle name to 18 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French diminutive of Robert.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Robin m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
- a surname originating as a patronymic
Derived terms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French, diminutive of Robert.
Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Robin
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
- Oure Hoste saugh that he was dronke of ale,
And seyde, "Abyd, Robin, my leve brother,
Som bettre man shal telle us first another:
Abyd, and lat us werken thriftily."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “Robin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Robin
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Robin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1880.
Proper noun
[edit]Robin c (genitive Robins)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
- a female given name
References
[edit]- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 27 631 males with the given name Robin living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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