# bot
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /bɒt/
* (US) enPR: bŏt, IPA: /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)
* 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
### Etymology 2

From bottom.

#### Verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
* (British, slang) To bugger.
* (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)
* (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.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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."
* (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 farm
* bot herd
* bot herder
* botherder
* botlike
* botmaster
* botnet
* bottable
* botter
* botty
* Duchovbot
* infobot
* lawbot
* magbote
* male bot
* male-bot
* malebot
* man-bot
* pleasurebot
* prostibot
* sexbot
* shopping bot
* troll bot
* Xbot

##### Related terms

* -bot

##### Translations
#### Verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
* (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: /bɔt/, [bot]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)
* sprout, bud

#### Verb

bot (present bot, present participle bot, past participle gebot)
* 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)
* blunt, dull (of an object)
* obtuse, dull, stupid

##### Derived terms

* botaf
* botheid

#### Noun

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)
* a bone
* (fish) flounder, fluke, butt
    Synonym: botvis
* (parasitic flatworm) fluke
    Synonym: slakwurm

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

bot
* 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
* boat

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Deverbal from botar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbot]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ot

#### Noun

bot m (plural bots)
* jump, leap
    Synonyms: salt, saltiró

##### Related terms

* botejar

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɔt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbot]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ot

#### Noun

bot m (plural bots)
* boat
    Synonyms: barca, vaixell

### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbot]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ot

#### Noun

bot m (plural bots)
* wineskin
    Synonym: odre
* bagpipes
    Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
* 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: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbot]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ot

#### Verb

bot
* inflection of botre:
** third-person singular present indicative
** 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
* blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* 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.
* 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

* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* (Belgium) boot

### Etymology 5

Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

#### Noun

bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)
* 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: /bo/
** Rhymes: -o
** Homophones: bau, baud, bauds, baux, beau, beaux, bots
* IPA: /bɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
** Rhymes: -ɔ
** Homophone: bots

#### Adjective

bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)
* (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
    un pied bot ― a clubfoot
* (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
    une main bote ― a deformed hand

### Etymology 2

From English bot.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔt/
* Homophones: bote, botes, bots, botte, bottes
* Rhymes: -ɔt

#### Noun

bot m (plural bots)
* (computing) bot

### Further reading

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

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [boːt]
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: Boot

### Verb

bot
* first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbot]
* Rhymes: -ot

### Noun

bot (plural botok)
* stick, staff
* walking stick, cane
    Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

#### Derived terms

* (botol →) botoló
* botos
* botoz
* botbüntetés
* botcsinálta
* botfül, botfülű
* bothőmérő
* botkormány
* botmixer
* botnyelű
* botsáska
* botütés
* botváltó
* 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
* 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
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /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)
* (footware) boot: a heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bot.

#### Noun

bot (plural bot-bot)
* bot:
** (science fiction) a physical robot.
** (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)
* a container made from nibung fronds, usually used to hold water

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

#### Adjective

bot
* 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: /bot/

### Preposition

bot
* 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
* 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: /bɔːt/

#### Noun

bot (plural botes)
* A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
** A boat (a watercraft or vessel smaller than a ship).
** A boat stowed on a ship for utility purposes, especially for tendering.
* (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
* Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

### Etymology 3

From Old English batt.

#### Noun

bot
* Alternative form of bat

### Etymology 4

From Old English bōt.

#### Noun

bot
* Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

### Etymology 5

From Old French bote.

#### Noun

bot
* 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
* tail
* penis

#### Derived terms

* botach

#### Descendants

* Irish: bod
* Manx: bwoid
* Scottish Gaelic: bod

### Mutation

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse bót.

### Noun

bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)
* a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
* a remedy
* 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
### Etymology

From Old Norse bót.

### Noun

bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)
* a fine (as above)
* a remedy
* a patch

#### Derived terms

* botemiddel
* parkeringsbot

#### Related terms

* bøtelegge

### References

* “bot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Czech
### Alternative forms

* bota

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bote.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈbot/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈbot/

### Noun

bot m inan
* boot (high, tight, close-fitting, often pointed leather shoe, reaching to the ankles or higher)

#### Descendants

* Czech: bota
* → Old Polish: bot, but
** Polish: but, bót (obsolete or dialectal, Lubawa)
** Silesian: bōt

### References

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

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).
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: /boːt/

### Noun

bōt f (nominative plural bōte)
* help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
** Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
* mending, repair, improvement
** ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
* compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
** For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
* improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
** Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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: /ˈbot/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

bot
* heavy

##### Derived terms

* abot
* binotan

##### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀ (bot)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bot
* 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 Polish
### Alternative forms

* but

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech bot. The change from bot to but was probably influenced by obuć. First attested in 1415.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /bɔt/
* IPA: (15th CE) /bɔt/

### Noun

bot m inan (diminutive butek)
* (attested in Masovia, Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) footwear, shoe
** 1920 [1415], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number 2559, Płońsk:O ctore boti Mscziszek na mø szalowal, thichem ya v Pechni ne wzøl[O ktore boty 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, volume XI, page 328:Item *budky pro tribus grossis et buthy magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos[Item *budky pro tribus grossis et buty magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos]
** 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 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)‎, 5, 16:Zvy boty z nog twich, bo myescze, na nyemze to stogis, swymø te gest[Zuj boty 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, page 324: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, number 1275, Warsaw:Ysze Woczech Marczina, schina szwego, hu Michala... vgednal sza rzadne odzenye y dal mv szuknya sza trzinaccze grozi a bothi 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 a boty 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, number 3051, Warsaw:Jakom ya drogy... kxadzv Janowy... nye zasthapyl... *amy go gonyl, any w them gemv szgynaly bothy, pyerz, sschaffran y vszda[Jakom ja drogi... ksiądzu Janowi... nie zastąpił... *a my go gonił, ani w tem jemu zginęły boty, pierz, szafran i uzda]
** 1923 [1478], Helena Polaczkówna, editor, Najstarsza księga sądowa wsi Trześniowa 1419-1609‎, Trześniów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, page 100:Expurgans innocenciam suam al. szwoyą nyevynoscz, czosch byla obwyny[o]na o bothy *zyamischowa[Expurgans innocenciam suam al. swoją niewinność, coż była obwini[o]na o boty zamszowe]
** 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116, Warsaw, page 299:Alyecz przyydzye mocznyeyszy, chthorego nye yestem dostoyen rosvyąsacz rzemyszka bothow yego[Aleć przyjdzie mocniejszy, chtorego nie jestem dostojen rozwięzać rzemyszka botow jego]
** 1874-1891 [c. 1500], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎, volume XLVII, page 354:Wyechecz sz botha *blathra[Wiecheć z bota *blathra]
** Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎, page 235:Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i ty boty 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 ty boty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało]
** Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎, page 387:Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę i boty na nogi[Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę i boty na nogi]
** Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎, page 638:Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przez botow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?[Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przez botow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?]
** c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 58r:*Glipiusz vyechecz s bothą[Glipiusz wiecheć z bota]

#### Derived terms

* butowe

#### Descendants

* Polish: but, bót (obsolete or dialectal, Lubawa)
* Silesian: bōt

### References

* Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “but”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* Mańczak, Witold (2017) “but”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “but”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “but”, in Jan 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”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
* Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “but”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
* K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “But, Bot”, in Słownik staropolski‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 179
* 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”, in Słownik 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”, in Rozariusze 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

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ᛒᚮᛏ

### Etymology

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

### Noun

bōt f
* improvement
* benefit, utility
* cure
* compensation

#### Declension

or

#### Descendants

* Swedish: bot

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* ankle boot

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bot.

#### Noun

bot m animal
* (computing) bot

##### Declension
### 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: /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔ.te/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.te/
* Homophone: bote

### Noun

bot m (plural bots)
* (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
* (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”).
Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.

#### Noun

bot n (plural boturi)
* (of animals) snout, mouth
* (of a person, vulgar) mouth
* bump
* hump
* (vulgar) blowjob

##### Synonyms

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

##### See also

* cioc
* rât

#### References

* ↑ 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)
* bot

##### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbot/ [ˈbot̪]
* Rhymes: -ot
* Syllabification: bot

### Noun

bot m (plural bots)
* 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: /buːt/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)

#### Noun

bot c
* 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.

##### Related terms

* böta
* bötfälla

### Etymology 2

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːt/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)

#### Noun

bot c
* cure; remedy
* (religious) penance

##### Related terms

* bota
* botemedel

### Etymology 3

Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔt/

#### Noun

bot c
* bot (robot)

##### Declension
### Further reading

* bot in Svensk ordbok.

## Tatar
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

### Noun

bot
* thigh

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

From French botte.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bot/

#### Noun

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)
* boot

### Etymology 2

From English boat

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bot/

#### Noun

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)
* boat
    Synonym: tekne

## Volapük
### Noun

bot (nominative plural bots)
* boat

#### Declension

$^1$ 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: /bot/

#### Adjective

bot
* curt, blunt, rude
* dull (as a knife)

##### Further reading

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

#### Adverb

bot
* 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: /bot/

#### Noun

bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)
* 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