How to say "robot" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningrobot
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
رُوبُوت
rūbūtרובות
روبوت
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
רובוט
robotرُوبُوت
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
The same 20th-century coinage in both: Karel Čapek's Czech robota, 'forced labor', reached Arabic as rūbūt and Hebrew as רובוט by the same route, through English.
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In a phrase
الرُّوبُوت يُنَظِّف الْبَيْت
ar-rūbūt yunaẓẓif al-baytאר-רובות ינט'ף אל-ביתThe robot cleans the house.
Plural
رُوبُوتَات
rūbūtātרובותאתloanword plural in -āt.