# Bob
## English
### Etymology

Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: bŏb, IPA: /bɒb/
* Rhymes: -ɒb
* (US) enPR: bäb, bôb, IPA: /bɑb/, /bɔb/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Proper noun

Bob
* A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
** 2005 March 30, “Miramax founders leave Disney”, in The Guardian‎:Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.
* (cryptography, physics) The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
    Synonym: Party B
    Coordinate terms: Alice, Eve, Mallory, Peggy, Victor
** 2003, Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 247:The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.

#### Derived terms

* Baghdad Bob
* Bob Hope
* Fighting Bob

#### Related terms

* Bobby
* Dobbin
* Rob
* Robbie

#### Translations
### Noun

Bob (plural Bobs)
* A generic male person. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Synonyms

* Jack (generic male)

#### Derived terms

* Bob's your uncle

### See also

* Alice

### Further reading

* Alice and Bob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* obb

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* BOB, bob

### Etymology

Borrowed from English Bob.
First used to mean "dedicated driver" in 1995 campaigns by Belgisch Instituut voor de Verkeersveiligheid ("Belgian Road Safety Institute") and since 2001 also in the Netherlands. Although it was explicitly intended to be a placeholder name, it is often spelled as "BOB" or "bob" as a result of a common folk etymology interpreting it as an abbreviation for bewust onbeschonken bestuurder "deliberately unintoxicated driver".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Bob
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Proper noun

Bob m
* a male given name, Bob
* designated driver

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔb/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔb

### Proper noun

Bob m
* a male given name from English

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔp/
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Proper noun

Bob m (proper noun, strong, genitive Bobs or (with an article) Bob)
* a male given name from English

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbob/
* Rhymes: -ob

### Proper noun

Bob m
* a male given name from English

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbob/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbob/ [ˈboβ]
* Rhymes: -ob, -oβ

### Proper noun

Bob m
* (cryptography) Bob (person or system receiving a message)
* a male given name from English

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!
* Rhymes: -ob

### Etymology 1

From bob.

#### Proper noun

Bob m (genitive/dative lui Bob)
* a surname

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Bob.

#### Proper noun

Bob m (genitive/dative lui Bob)
* a male given name from English

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbob/ [ˈboβ̞]
* Rhymes: -ob, -oβ

### Proper noun

Bob m
* a male given name from English

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bop/
* Rhymes: -op

### Proper noun

Bob
* a male given name from English

## Uzbek
### Proper noun

Bob
* the Báb

#### Derived terms

* bobiy
* bobiylik