# robin
## English
### Etymology 1

Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɒ.bɪn/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɹɑː.bɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
* Hyphenation: rob‧in

#### Noun

robin (plural robins)
* Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
** A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
*** 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
** An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
* (historical) A trimming in front of a dress.

##### Usage notes

The American robin is larger and quite different from the European one: English settlers in America named it from its red breast.

##### Synonyms

* (all senses): redbreast, robin redbreast
* (the European robin): ruddock

##### Derived terms

* Australasian robin
* cock-robin
* cock-robin shop
* eastern yellow robin
* forest robin
* Japanese robin
* magpie-robin
* mangrove robin
* Natal robin
* Peking robin
* Pekin robin
* ragged robin
* robin-breast
* robin-chat
* robin dipper
* robin egg blue
* robin redbreast
* robin-run-in-the-grass
* robin-run-in-the-hedge
* robin-run-the-hedge
* robin snipe
* robin snow
* rose robin
* round robin
* round-robin story
* rufous bush robin
* rufous scrub robin
* rufous-tailed scrub robin
* scrub robin
* sea robin
* wake robin
* wake-robin
* white-throated robin

##### Translations

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#### References

* European robin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:Erithacus rubecula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Erithacus rubecula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* American robin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:Turdus migratorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Turdus migratorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

robin (uncountable)
* (organic chemistry) A toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.

##### Derived terms

* antirobin

##### Related terms

* robinin

### See also

* round-robin

### Anagrams

* Biron, Brion, inorb

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈrɔ.βin]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrɔ.bin]

### Verb

robin
* inflection of robar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɔ.bɛ̃/

### Etymology 1

Familiar form of Robert.

#### Noun

robin m (plural robins)
* (obsolete) sheep, calf

##### Derived terms

* robinet

### Etymology 2

Derivative of robe, in the phrase homme de robe (“man of the gown”). robe +‎ -in.

#### Noun

robin m (plural robins)
* (archaic, derogatory) lawyer

### Further reading

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

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from English robin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔbin/

### Noun

robin f or m (plural robinod, not mutable)
* (archaic) robin (Erithacus rubecula)
    Synonyms: robin goch, brongoch, bronrhuddyn, rhuddog, cochgam
* horsefly, gadfly (Tabanus)
    Synonyms: pryf llwyd, cleren lwyd

#### Derived terms

* dail robin (“herb Robert; lords-and-ladies”)
* robin goch (more common term for a robin)
* robin y diawl gwyllt, robin y gyrrwr (“horsefly”)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “robin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies