• (UK)IPA^(key):/bɒt/
• (US)enPR:bŏt,IPA^(key):/bɑt/

  • Audio(US):

    (file)

• Audio(General Australian):

  (file)

• Homophone:bought(cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes:-ɒt

Possibly a modification ofScottish Gaelicboiteag(“maggot”).

• bott

bot (pluralbots)

1. Thelarva of abotfly, whichinfests theskin of variousmammals, producingwarbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
   • 1946,Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page76:

     One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized bybots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.

   • 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata,Tropical Nature, page157:

     Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsatingbot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.

• rodent bot

Frombottom.

bot (third-person singular simple presentbots,present participlebotting,simple past and past participlebotted)

1. (British,slang) Tobugger.
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 Ibot a smoke?

   Jonny alwaysbots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.

Clipping ofrobot.

• 'bot

bot (pluralbots)

1. (science fiction,informal) A physicalrobot.
   • 1998, David G. Hartwell, editor,Year's best SF 3, page130:

     I stared at thebot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.

   • 2005,Greg Bear,Quantico‎^[1], page71:

     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]:

     Thebot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.

2. (computing) A piece ofsoftware designed to perform a minor butrepetitivetaskautomatically or oncommand, 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], page42:

     The goals of IRCbots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRCbot 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], page91:

     He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also calledbots. Abot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google usesbots to search and index websites.

   • 2010, Dusty Reagan,Twitter Application Development For Dummies‎^[5], page59:

     Twitterbots 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 Twitterbot.

   • 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, inThe Atlantic‎^[6], retrieved2021-09-01:

     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 ofbot activity online.

3. (video games) A computer-controlledcharacter in avideo game, especially amultiplayer one.

   Synonyms:NPC,AI

   • 2012, Philip Hingston,Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN,page232:

     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 supremelyunskilled 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”, inEurogamer‎^[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 abot lobby."

5. (Internetslang, oftenderogatory) A person with no ability tothink for themselves;(by extension) anunintelligent orcontemptible person.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:fool,Thesaurus:jerk

   • [2024 June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, inNew Scientist‎^[8],→ISSN, retrieved2024-06-10:

     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[.]]

• -bot

bot (third-person singular simple presentbots,present participlebotting,simple past and past participlebotted)

1. (video games) To use abot, or automated program.

   Players caughtbotting will be banned from the server.

• viewbot

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• BTO,OTB

• IPA^(key):/bɔt/,[bot]

FromDutchbot, frombotte. Ultimately fromProto-Germanic*buddǭ.

bot (pluralbotte,diminutivebotjie)

1. sprout,bud

bot (presentbot,present participlebot,past participlegebot)

1. tosprout, tobud

FromDutchbot, fromMiddle Dutchbot. Ultimately fromProto-West Germanic*buttaz.

bot (attributivebotte,comparativebotter,superlativebotste)

1. blunt,dull (of an object)
2. obtuse,dull,stupid

bot (pluralbotte,diminutivebotjie)

1. abone
2. (fish)flounder,fluke,butt

   Synonym:botvis

3. (parasitic flatworm)fluke

   Synonym:slakwurm

bot

1. Alternative spelling ofbod

• 2007.The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

FromEnglishboat.

bot

1. boat

Deverbal frombotar.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈbot]

• Audio(Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ot

bot m (pluralbots)

1. jump,leap

   Synonyms:salt,saltiró

• botejar

Borrowed fromMiddle Englishbot (whence Englishboat), fromOld Englishbāt(“boat”).

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈbɔt]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈbot]

• Audio(Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ot

bot m (pluralbots)

1. boat

   Synonyms:barca,vaixell

Inherited fromLate Latinbuttis(“wineskin”), probably ofAncient Greek origin.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈbot]

• Audio(Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ot

bot m (pluralbots)

1. wineskin

   Synonym:odre

2. bagpipes

   Synonyms:bot de gemecs,cornamusa

3. sunfish(large marine fish of the familyMolidae)

   Synonym:mola

• ploure a bots i barrals

• “bot” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bot”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
• “bot” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bot” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈbot]

• Audio(Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ot

bot

1. inflection ofbotre:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• buat

Possibly from a derivative ofLatinbattuō, or alternatively ofGermanic origin. CompareItalianbotta,Frenchbotte.

bot m

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

• IPA^(key):/bɔt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation:bot
• Rhymes:-ɔt

FromMiddle Dutchbot,but,butte, related toMiddle Low Germanbut(“dull, plump, coarse”),West Frisianbot(“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately fromProto-West Germanic*butt, fromProto-Germanic*buttaz(“end, butt”).

bot (comparativebotter,superlativebotst)

2. notsharp,blunt,dull

   De schaar is tebot om het papier goed te knippen.

   The scissors are tooblunt to cut the paper properly.

3. impolite, badlybehaving:curt,blunt,rude

   Zijn opmerking was nogalbot en kwetste haar gevoelens.

   His remark was quiteimpolite and hurt her feelings.

• Berbice Creole Dutch:dofu
• → Papiamentu:bòt

FromMiddle Dutchbut. Cognate withEnglishbutt,GermanButt, in all senses.

bot n (pluralbotten,diminutivebotje n)

2. bone

   Synonyms:been,knekel,knook

   De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebrokenbot heeft.

   The doctor has determined that he has a brokenbone.

• penisbot

FromMiddle Dutchbot, fromOld Dutch*but, fromProto-West Germanic*butt(“stumpy”), fromProto-Germanic*buttaz(“stumpy”). Cognate withEnglishbutt(“flatfish”),GermanButt(“lefteye flounder”),West Frisianbot(“flounder”).

bot m (pluralbotten,diminutivebotje n)

2. flounder (a type offish)

   Ik heb een heerlijkebot gevangen tijdens het vissen.

   I caught a deliciousflounder while fishing.

• heilbot m
• tarbot m

• Afrikaans:bot
• → West Frisian:bot

FromFrenchbotte.

bot f (pluralbotten,diminutivebotje n)

1. (Belgium)boot

Borrowed fromEnglishbot, fromrobot.

bot m (pluralbots,diminutivebotje n)

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

• robot
• chatbot,voicebot

FromMiddle Frenchbot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately fromProto-Germanic*buttaz(“butt, stump, end”). If so, adoublet ofbut.

• IPA^(key):/bo/
  • Rhymes:-o
  • Homophones:bau,baud,bauds,baux,beau,beaux,bots
• IPA^(key):/bɔ/(older, now chiefly Belgium)
  • Rhymes:-ɔ
  • Homophone:bots

bot (femininebote,masculine pluralbots,feminine pluralbotes)

1. (of a foot) affected by the deformation known asclubfoot

   unpiedbot ―aclubfoot

2. (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation

   une mainbote ―adeformed hand

FromEnglishbot.

• IPA^(key):/bɔt/
• Homophones:bote,botes,bots,botte,bottes
• Rhymes:-ɔt

bot m (pluralbots)

1. (computing)bot

• “bot”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• IPA^(key):[boːt]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone:Boot

bot

1. first/third-personsingularpreterite ofbieten

From aSlavic, language, fromProto-Slavic*bъtъ.

• IPA^(key):[ˈbot]
• Rhymes:-ot

bot (pluralbotok)

1. stick,staff
2. walking stick,cane

   Synonyms:sétabot,sétapálca

• bot inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
• bot inNóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ez as of 2024).

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/ˈbot/[ˈbot̪̚]
• Rhymes:-ot
• Syllabification:bot

Borrowed fromEnglishboot, fromMiddle Englishboote,bote(“shoe”), fromOld Frenchbote(“a high, thick shoe”). Compare StandardMalaybut.

bot (pluralbot-bot)

1. (footware)boot: a heavy shoe that covers part of the leg

Borrowed fromEnglishbot.

bot (pluralbot-bot)

1. bot:
   1. (science fiction) a physical robot
   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

Unknown.(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.).

bot (pluralbot-bot)

1. a container made from nibung fronds, usually used to hold water

Borrowed fromAcehnese[Term?].

bot

1. arching the back to stretch the body

• “bot” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Derived fromEnglishbut.

• IPA^(key):/bot/

bot

1. but

   Im waan unu nof taim,bot unu naa lisn.

   He warned you many times,but you didn't listen.

• bot at majstro.com

bot

1. Romanization ofꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀

FromOld Englishbāt.

• (Early or Northern ME)bate,bat
• bote,boot,boet,boyt,bootte,boote

• IPA^(key):/bɔːt/

bot (pluralbotes)

1. A seafaringvessel orwatercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
   1. Aboat(a watercraft or vessel smaller than aship).
   2. A boat stowed on a ship forutility purposes, especially for tendering.
2. (figurative) Thepath orcourse of one's life; one'sdirection.

• botere

• English:boat
  • Belizean Creole:boat
  • → Esperanto:boato
  • → Dhivehi:ބޯޓު(bōṭu)
  • → Fijian:boto
  • → Hijazi Arabic:بوت(bōt)
  • → Japanese:ボート(bōto)
  • → Malay:bot
  • → Pitcairn-Norfolk:boet(Norfuk)
  • → Sinhalese:බෝට්‍ටුව(bōṭṭuwa)
  • → Swahili:boti
  • → Scots:boat,bote(compare nativebait,bate)
  • → Tahitian:poti
  • Tok Pisin:bot
• Scots:bate,bait
• → Middle Dutch:boot
  • Dutch:boot
    • Afrikaans:boot
• → Middle Low German:bôt,bott
  • Low German:Boot
  • Plautdietsch:Boot
  • → German:Boot
• → North Frisian:böötj
• → Saterland Frisian:Boot
• → West Frisian:boat
• → Catalan:bot
• → Galician:bote
• → Old French:bot
  • → Portuguese:bote
• → Spanish:bote
  • → Cebuano:bote

• “bōt,n.(1).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.

FromOld Norsebúð.

bot

1. Alternative form ofbothe(“booth”)

FromOld Englishbatt.

bot

1. Alternative form ofbat

FromOld Englishbōt.

bot

1. Alternative form ofbote(“help, benefit”)

FromOld Frenchbote.

bot

1. Alternative form ofbote(“boot”)

FromProto-Celtic*bozdos(“tail, penis”) (compareWelshboth(“hub, nave”),Bretonbod(“bush, shrub; branch”)), fromProto-Indo-European*gwosdʰos(“piece of wood”), compareProto-Slavic*gvozdь(“nail, tack, peg”).

bot m

1. tail
2. penis

• botach

• Irish:bod
• Manx:bwoid
• Scottish Gaelic:bod

FromOld Norsebót.

bot f orm (definite singularbotaorboten,indefinite pluralbøter,definite pluralbøtene)

1. afine(sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
2. aremedy
3. apatch

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

• bøtelegge

• “bot” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bot_3” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

FromOld Norsebót.

bot f (definite singularbota,indefinite pluralbøter,definite pluralbøtene)

1. afine(as above)
2. aremedy
3. apatch

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

• bøtelegge

• “bot” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bota

Borrowed fromOld Frenchbote.

• IPA^(key):(13^th CE)/ˈbot/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/ˈbot/

bot m inan

1. boot(high, tight, close-fitting, often pointed leather shoe, reaching to the ankles or higher)

• Czech:bota
• → Old Polish:bot,but
  • Polish:but,bot(Middle Polish),bót(obsolete ordialectal,Lubawa)
  • Silesian:bōt

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “bot”, inSlovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague:Česká grafická společnost "unie",Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

FromProto-West Germanic*bōtu(“recompense”).

• IPA^(key):/boːt/

bōt f (nominative pluralbōte)

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

Strongō-stem:

• Middle English:bote
  • English:boot
  • → English:bote
  • Scots:bute,buit

FromVulgar Latin*padda, probably aGermanic loan fromFrankish*paddā(“toad”). CompareItalianbotta(“toad”),Old Englishpadde(“toad”),Old Norsepadda(“toad”). More atpaddock.

botoblique singular, f (oblique pluralbozorbotz,nominative singularbot,nominative pluralbozorbotz)

1. toad (animal)

• boterel

• “bot”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Fromboter(“to strike”), fromFrankish*buttan, from*bautan(“to hit, strike”).

botoblique singular, m (oblique pluralbozorbotz,nominative singularbozorbotz,nominative pluralbot)

1. strike;hit;blow

• cop

Seebat.

botoblique singular, m (oblique pluralbozorbotz,nominative singularbozorbotz,nominative pluralbot)

1. Alternative form ofbat

Seebout.

botoblique singular, m (oblique pluralbozorbotz,nominative singularbozorbotz,nominative pluralbot)

1. Alternative form ofbout

• Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX^e auXV^e siècle (1881) (bot) (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
• bot on theAnglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')

• bwat

• IPA^(key):/ˈbot/

Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*bəʀəqat (compareMalayberat).Doublet ofbwat andwrat.

bot

1. heavy

• Javanese:ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀(bot)

Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buhat.Doublet ofbwat andwwat.

bot

1. style,make

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

• but

Borrowed fromOld Czechbot. The change frombot tobut was probably influenced byobuć. First attested in 1415.

• IPA^(key):(10^th–15^th CE)/bɔt/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/bɔt/

bot m inan (diminutivebutek)

1. (attested inMasovia,Lesser Poland,Greater Poland)footwear,shoe
   • 1920 [1415], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors,Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number2559,Płońsk:

     O ctoreboti Mscziszek na mø szalowal, thichem ya v Pechni ne wzøl

     [O ktoreboty Mściszek na mię żałował, tychem ja u Piechny nie wziął]

   • 1868 [1448],Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎^[9], volume XI, page328:

     Item *budky pro tribus grossis etbuthy magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos

     [Item *budky pro tribus grossis etbuty magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos]

   • 1930 [c.1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor,Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^[10],25, 9:

     Zona...zvge boti z gego nog

     [Żona...zuje boty z jego nog]

   • 1930 [c.1455], “Jos”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor,Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^[11],5, 16:

     Zvyboty z nog twich, bo myescze, na nyemze to stogis, swymø te gest

     [Zujboty z nog twych, bo mieście, na niemże to stojisz, swymą te jest]

   • 1927 [c.1455], Kazimierz Dobrowolski, editor,Przyczynki do dziejów średniowiecznej kultury polskiej z rękopisu szczyrzyckiego,Szczyrzyc, page324:

     Mnye wthoremu *dzeye luthy. Geszlisz nag, przyodzey[ey][bo]thy

     [Mnie wtoremu dzieją luty, jesliś nag, przyodziej[bo]ty]

   • 1950 [1470], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors,Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number1275,Warsaw:

     Ysze Woczech Marczina, schina szwego, hu Michala... vgednal sza rzadne odzenye y dal mv szuknya sza trzinaccze grozi abothi za poltrzecza groza, a on oth nyego przez czasu othszethl

     [Iże Wociech Marcina, syna swego, hu Michała... ujednał za rządne odzienie i dał mu suknią za trzynaćcie groszy aboty za połtrzecia grosza, a on ot niego przez czasu odszedł]

   • 1950 [1471], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors,Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number3051,Warsaw:

     Jakom ya drogy... kxadzv Janowy... nye zasthapyl... *amy go gonyl, any w them gemv szgynalybothy, pyerz, sschaffran y vszda

     [Jakom ja drogi... ksiądzu Janowi... nie zastąpił... *a my go gonił, ani w tem jemu zginęłyboty, pierz, szafran i uzda]

   • 1923 [1478], Helena Polaczkówna, editor,Najstarsza księga sądowa wsi Trześniowa 1419-1609‎^[12],Trześniów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, page100:

     Expurgans innocenciam suam al. szwoyą nyevynoscz, czosch byla obwyny[o]na obothy *zyamischowa

     [Expurgans innocenciam suam al. swoją niewinność, coż była obwini[o]na oboty zamszowe]

   • 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor,Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116,Warsaw, page299:

     Alyecz przyydzye mocznyeyszy, chthorego nye yestem dostoyen rosvyąsacz rzemyszkabothow yego

     [Aleć przyjdzie mocniejszy, chtorego nie jestem dostojen rozwięzać rzemyszkabotow jego]

   • 1874-1891 [c.1500],Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎^{[13],[14],[15]}, volume XLVII, page354:

     Wyechecz szbotha *blathra

     [Wiecheć zbota *blathra]

   • Middle of the 15th century,Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[16], page235:

     Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i tyboty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało

     [Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i tyboty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało]

   • Middle of the 15th century,Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[17], page387:

     Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę iboty na nogi

     [Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę iboty na nogi]

   • Middle of the 15th century,Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[18], page638:

     Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przezbotow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?

     [Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przezbotow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?]

   • c.1500,Wokabularz lubiński,Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page58r:

     *Glipiusz vyechecz sbothą

     [Glipiusz wiecheć zbota]

• Polish:but,bot(Middle Polish),bót(obsolete ordialectal,Lubawa)
• Silesian:bōt

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “but”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie,→ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “but”, inPolski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności,→ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “but”, inEtymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “but”, inJan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors,Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “but”, inWielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego,→ISBN
• Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “but”, inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[19] (in Polish), volumes1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “but”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “but”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa:PWN
• K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “But, Bot”, inSłownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw:Polish Academy of Sciences, page179
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “but, bot”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “(But) Bot”, inRozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków:Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

• ᛒᚮᛏ

FromOld Norsebót, fromProto-Germanic*bōtō.

bōt f

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

or

• Swedish:bot

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɔt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɔt
• Syllabification:bot
• Homophone:bod

Borrowed fromEnglishbot.

bot m animal

1. (computing)bot

Seebut.

bot m inan (diminutivebotek)

1. ankle boot
2. Middle Polish form ofbut

• bot inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bot”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “BUT”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century],28.04.2010

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbot.Doublet ofrobô.

• Homophone:bote

bot m (pluralbots)

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

Unknown. Possibly from aVulgar Latin root*botum, perhaps fromLatinbotulus or from a root*botium, aGermanic borrowing, fromFrankish*boce(“knob”), fromOld High Germanbozzan(“to beat”), fromProto-West Germanic*bautan(“to push, strike”).^[1]

CompareItalianbozza,Frenchbosse. See alsobutuc andboț.

bot n (pluralboturi)

1. (of animals)snout,mouth
2. (of a person,vulgar)mouth
3. bump
4. hump
5. (vulgar)blowjob

• (mouth):gură
• (bump):umflătură,cucui
• (hump):cocoașă

• cioc
• rât

FromEnglishbot.

bot m (pluralboți)

1. bot

• bot inDEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed fromEnglishbot.

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

bot m (pluralbots)

1. bot(robot)

• “bot”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

FromOld Swedishbōt(“improvement”), fromOld Norseᛒᚢᛏ(but) (in the Latin scriptbót) whence alsoIcelandicbót), fromProto-Germanic*bōtō. Akin toEnglishboot(“remedy, profit”). Masculine inLate Modern Swedish.

• IPA^(key):/buːt/

• Audio(Gotland):

  (file)

bot c

1. fine (penalty in money)

• In newer usage, the indefinite pluralböter 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.

• böta
• bötfälla

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

• IPA^(key):/buːt/

• Audio(Gotland):

  (file)

bot c

1. cure;remedy
2. (religious)penance

• bota
• botemedel

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbot.

• IPA^(key):/bɔt/

bot c

1. bot(robot)

• bot inSvenska Akademiens ordböcker

FromProto-Turkic*būt(“thigh”).

bot

1. thigh

FromFrenchbotte.

• IPA^(key):/bot/

bot (definite accusativebotu,pluralbotlar)

1. boot

FromEnglishboat

• IPA^(key):/bot/

bot (definite accusativebotu,pluralbotlar)

1. boat

   Synonym:tekne

bot (nominative pluralbots)

1. boat

FromOld Frisianbutie, fromProto-West Germanic*butt, fromProto-Germanic*buttaz(“end piece”), related toEnglishbutt.

• IPA^(key):/bot/

bot

1. curt,blunt,rude
2. dull (as aknife)