bot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bot"

For Wiktionary's bots, see Wiktionary:Bots.

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

bot

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• bott

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• rodent bot

Translations

larva of a botfly

Portuguese: berne m Russian: личи́нка о́вода f (ličínka óvoda) Swedish: styngflugelarv c

Etymology 2

From bottom.

Verb

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

Clipping of robot.

Alternative forms

• 'bot

Noun

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, 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:

     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, 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, 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, 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, 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:

     "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, →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[.]]

Derived terms

• agribot
• aimbot
• Amabot
• antibot
• biobot
• bot herd
• botherder
• bot herder
• botlike
• botmaster
• botnet
• bottable
• botter
• botty
• Duchovbot
• infobot
• lawbot
• magbote
• male bot
• male-bot
• malebot
• man-bot
• pleasurebot
• prostibot
• shopping bot
• troll bot
• Xbot

Related terms

• -bot

Translations

robot — see robot

a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks

Arabic: بُوت m (būt), بُوت m (bot), رُوبُوت (ar) m (robut), رُوبُوت (ar) m (rūbut) Belarusian: бот m (bot), ро́бат m (róbat) Bulgarian: бот m (bot) Catalan: bot (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 機器人 / 机器人 (zh) (jīqìrén) Dutch: bot (nl) Esperanto: roboto (eo) Finnish: botti (fi) French: robot (fr) m, bot (fr) m Galician: bot m German: Bot (de) m Greek: μποτ (el) n (bot), ρομπότ (el) m (rompót) Hebrew: בּוֹט (he) m (bot) Hindi: बोट (hi) m (boṭ) Japanese: ボット (ja) (botto), ロボット (ja) (robotto) Korean: 봇 (bot) Latin: botum n, robotum n Latvian: robotprogrammatūra f, bots m Persian: ربات (fa) (robât) Polish: bot (pl) m Portuguese: bot (pt) m Romanian: bot (ro) Russian: бот (ru) m (bot), ро́бот (ru) m (róbot) Spanish: bot (es) m Swedish: bot (sv) c Thai: บอต (bɔ̀ɔt) Turkish: bot (tr) Ukrainian: бот (uk) m (bot), ро́бот (uk) m (róbot) Urdu: بوٹ m (boṭ)

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• viewbot

References

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

Anagrams

• BTO, OTB

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/, [bot]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

1. sprout, bud

Verb

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

1. to sprout, to bud

Derived terms

• botsel

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)

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

Derived terms

• botaf
• botheid

Noun

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

1. a bone
2. (fish) flounder, fluke, butt

   Synonym: botvis

3. (parasitic flatworm) fluke

   Synonym: slakwurm

Etymology 3

Noun

bot

1. Alternative spelling of bod

References

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

Bislama

Etymology

From English boat.

Noun

bot

1. boat

Catalan

Etymology 1

Deverbal from botar.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. jump, leap

   Synonyms: salt, saltiró

Related terms

• botejar

Etymology 2

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”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. boat

   Synonyms: barca, vaixell

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

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

Derived terms

• ploure a bots i barrals

Further reading

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

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ot

Verb

bot

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

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• buat

Etymology

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

Noun

bot m

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology 1

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”).

Adjective

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

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	—

Declension

• botheid
• botweg

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
• → Papiamentu: bòt

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• penisbot

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• heilbot m
• tarbot m

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bot
• → West Frisian: bot

Etymology 4

From French botte.

Noun

bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

1. (Belgium) boot

Etymology 5

Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

Noun

bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

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

Related terms

• robot
• chatbot, voicebot

French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

From English bot.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. (computing) bot

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [boːt]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: Boot

Verb

bot

1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot]
• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

bot (plural botok)

1. stick, staff
2. walking stick, cane

   Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

Declension

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

Derived terms

• (botol →) botoló
• botos
• botoz

(Compound words with this term at the beginning):

• botbüntetés
• botcsinálta
• botfül, botfülű
• bothőmérő
• botkormány
• botmixer
• botnyelű
• botsáska
• botütés
• botváltó

(Compound words with this term at the end):

• ásóbot
• bambuszbot
• biliárdbot
• bunkósbot
• furkósbot
• gumibot
• hokibot, jéghokibot
• horgászbot
• járóbot
• juhászbot
• kampósbot
• (koldusbot →) koldusbotra
• marsallbot
• ólmosbot
• pásztorbot
• pecabot
• püspökbot
• rovásbot
• sétabot
• síbot
• stafétabot
• szelfibot
• turistabot
• ültetőbot
• varázsbot
• váltóbot
• vándorbot

(Expressions):

• a füle botját sem mozdítja

Further reading

• 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).

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

bot

Wikipedia ^id

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English boot, from Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Compare Standard Malay but.

Noun

bot (plural bot-bot)

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bot.

Noun

bot (plural bot-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.

Derived terms

• bot stiker

Etymology 3

Unknown. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

bot (plural bot-bot)

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

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

Adjective

bot

1. arching the back to stretch the body

Further reading

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

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English but.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Preposition

bot

1. but

   Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.

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

Further reading

• bot at majstro.com

Javanese

Romanization

bot

1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bāt.

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːt/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• botere

Descendants

• 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 native bait, 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

References

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

Etymology 2

From Old Norse búð.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

Etymology 3

From Old English batt.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

From Old English bōt.

Noun

bot

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

Etymology 5

From Old French bote.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Middle Irish

Etymology

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”).

Noun

bot m

1. tail
2. penis

Derived terms

• botach

Descendants

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

Mutation

Mutation of bot

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

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

bot

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Old Norse bót.

Noun

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

Derived terms

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

Related terms

• bøtelegge

References

• “bot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bot_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

bot

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Old Norse bót.

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

Related terms

• bøtelegge

References

• “bot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːt/

Noun

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

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	bōt	bōta, bōte
accusative	bōte	bōta, bōte
genitive	bōte	bōta
dative	bōte	bōtum

Derived terms

• bōtan, bētan (“to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone”)
• bōtettan (“to improve, repair, to better”)
• bōtlēas (“unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bōt”)
• bōtwyrþe (“pardonable, that can be atoned for by bōt”)
• bryċġbōt (“repairing of bridges”)
• burgbōt, burhbōt (“liability for repair of the walls of a town or fortress”)
• ċiriċbōt (“repair of churches”)
• cynebōt (“king's compensation”)
• dǣdbōt (“amends, atonement, repentance, penitence”)
• dǣdbōtlihting (“mitigation of penance”)
• dǣdbōtnes, dǣdbētnes (“penitence”)
• dolgbōt, dolhbōt (“fine or compensation for wounding”)
• eftbōt (“restoration to health”)
• fǣhþbōt (“payment, fine for engaging in a feud”)
• feohbōt (“money compensation”)
• godbōt (“atonement”)
• hādbōt (“compensation for injury or insult to a priest”)
• mǣgbōt (“compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered man, maegbot”)
• mægþbōt (“fine for assault on an unmarried woman”)
• mannbōt (“fine paid to the lord of a man slain”)
• mōnaþbōt (“penance lasting a month”)
• sārbōt (“compensation for wounding”)
• synbōt (“penance”)
• tō bōte (“to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover”)
• twibōte, twibēte (“subject to double compensation”, adjective, adverb)
• wēofodbōt (“fine for injuring a priest”)
• wucubōt (“penance lasting a week”)

Descendants

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

Old French

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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

1. toad (animal)

Derived terms

• boterel

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

1. strike; hit; blow

Synonyms

• cop

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

See bout.

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of bout

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e 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

Alternative forms

• bwat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot/

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

bot

1. heavy

Derived terms

• abot
• binotan

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀ (bot)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bot

1. style, make

Derived terms

• binot

• binot ranu
• binot rawi
• bot dagaṅ
• bot ranu
• bot rawi

Further reading

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

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᛒᚮᛏ

Etymology

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

Noun

bōt f

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

Declension

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

or

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

Descendants

• Swedish: bot

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

bot

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Czech bot, from French botte.

Noun

bot m inan (diminutive botek)

1. ankle boot

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	bot	boty
genitive	bota	botów
dative	botowi	botom
accusative	bot	boty
instrumental	botem	botami
locative	bocie	botach
vocative	bocie	boty

Declension of bot

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bot.

Noun

bot m animal

1. (computing) bot

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	bot	boty
genitive	bota	botów
dative	botowi	botom
accusative	bota	boty
instrumental	botem	botami
locative	bocie	botach
vocative	bocie	boty

Declension of bot

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

• Homophone: bote

Noun

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

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

bot n (plural boturi)

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

Declension

Declension of bot

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bot	botul		boturi	boturile
genitive-dative	bot	botului		boturi	boturilor
vocative	botule			boturilor

Synonyms

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

See also

• cioc
• rât

References

1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 469

Etymology 2

From English bot.

Noun

bot m (plural boți)

1. bot

Declension

Declension of bot

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

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bot.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. bot (robot)

Further reading

• “bot”, in Diccionario 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

Swedish

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

  (file)

Noun

bot c

1. fine (penalty in money)

Usage notes

• 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.

Declension

Declension of bot

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bot	bots
	definite	boten	botens
plural	indefinite	böter	böters
	definite	böterna	böternas

Related terms

• böta
• bötfälla

Etymology 2

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

  (file)

Noun

bot c

1. cure; remedy
2. (religious) penance

Declension

Declension of bot

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bot	bots
	definite	boten	botens
plural	indefinite	boter	boters
	definite	boterna	boternas

Related terms

• bota
• botemedel

Etymology 3

Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/

Noun

bot c

1. bot (robot)

Declension

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

Further reading

• bot in Svensk ordbok.

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

Noun

bot

1. thigh

Turkish

Etymology 1

From French botte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Noun

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

1. boot

Etymology 2

From English boat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Noun

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

1. boat

   Synonym: tekne

Volapük

Noun

bot (nominative plural bots)

1. boat

Declension

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

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Adjective

bot

1. curt, blunt, rude
2. dull (as a knife)

Inflection

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

• “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

bot

1. very, quite

Further reading

• “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

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

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Noun

bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

1. flounder (a type of fish)

Further reading

• “bot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “bot1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute