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bot

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bongo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bongo terms

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: bŏt, IPA^(key): /bɑt/

  • Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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

Unknown. Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”), but the word already existed in Middle English, so the reverse direction of borrowing is likely. Possibly from Middle Low German [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• bott

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.

• rodent bot

From bottom.

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.

bot (plural bots)

1. (British, slang) The bottom or backside.

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• 'bot

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^[1], 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^[2]:

     The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.

3. (computing) A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) 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^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], 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^[6], archived from the original on 4 February 2023:

     Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. […] 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.

4. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.

   Synonyms: NPC, AI

   • 2004, Daniel Sulpizi, “Rally Your Troops for RuneScape2”, in The Toronto Star‎^[7]:

     Next, you are placed in the world of RuneScape, which is similar to our own, with trees, grass, buildings, animals, and of course, people. In RuneScape's shops and banks there are bots (computer-controlled players).

   • 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.

5. (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^[8]:

     "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."

6. (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^[9], →ISSN, retrieved 10 June 2024:

     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[.]]

• -bot

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.

• viewbot

• “bot” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

• BTO, OTB

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/, [bot]

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

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

1. sprout, bud

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

1. to sprout, to bud

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

bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)

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

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

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

   Synonym: botvis

3. (parasitic flatworm) fluke

   Synonym: slakwurm

bot

1. alternative spelling of bod

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

From English boat.

bot

1. boat

Deverbal from botar.

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ot

bot m (plural bots)

1. jump, leap

   Synonyms: salt, saltiró

• botejar

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

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ot

bot m (plural bots)

1. boat

   Synonyms: barca, vaixell

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

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ot

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

• ploure a bots i barrals

• “bot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “bot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “bot”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ot

bot

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

• buat

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

bot m

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

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”).

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 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	—

• Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
• → Papiamentu: bòt

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

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.

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”).

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.

• Afrikaans: bot
• → West Frisian: bot

From French botte.

bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

1. (Belgium) boot

Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

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

From Middle Dutch botte (“bud of a flower or fruit”), of uncertain origin:

• perhaps related to Middle High German butzen (“to push”), and ultimately to Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push”).
• Alternatively, perhaps related to Middle Low German *butte (as in hāgebutte (“rosehip”)), from Middle High German butte (“hip, rosehip”), from Old High German *butta, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā (“swelling, bud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”). If so, then cognate with German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Middle English budde, bodde (whence English bud).

bot m or f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

1. (botany) bud

• Afrikaans: bot

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

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

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

From English bot.

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

bot m (plural bots)

1. (computing) bot

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

• IPA^(key): [boːt]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophone: Boot

bot

1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot]
• Rhymes: -ot

bot (plural botok)

1. stick, staff
2. walking stick, cane

   Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

• bot in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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 2026).

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

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

bot (plural bot-bot)

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

Borrowed from English bot.

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

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

bot (plural bot-bot)

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

Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

bot (comparative lebih bot, superlative paling bot)

1. arching the back to stretch the body

• “bot”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Derived from English but.

• IPA^(key): /bot/

bot

1. but

   Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.

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

• bot at majstro.com

bot

1. romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀

PIE root
*bʰeyd-

Inherited from Old English bāt, from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

• boet, boot, bote
• bat, bate (Early Middle English or Northern); boote, bootte (Late Middle English)
• boyt (East Anglia)

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̝ːt/

bot (plural botes)

1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft:
   1. A boat (a vessel smaller than a ship).
   2. A boat stowed on a ship (especially for tendering).
2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.

• botere

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

bot

1. alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

bot

1. alternative form of bat

bot

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

bot

1. alternative form of bote (“boot”)

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”).

bot m

1. tail
2. penis

• botach

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

From Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (cf. Cornish bos, Breton bout), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”); all the b- initial forms are from the same root. The vowel-initial forms are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

The third-person singular present mae originally meant “here is” and is from the same source as yma (“here”) plus Proto-Celtic *esti. The third-person plural maent, maen is derived from the singular by adding the third-person plural verb ending -nt.

• IPA^(key): /bod/

bot

1. to be

• Welsh: bod

• Evans, D. Simon (1964), A Grammar of Middle Welsh (Medieval and Modern Welsh Series; supplementary volume), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 144–49, pages 136–45

From Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”).

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

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

• bøtelegge

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

From Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”).

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

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

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

• bøtelegge

• “bot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bota

Borrowed from Old French bote.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈbot/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈbot/

bot m inan

1. boot (high, tight, close-fitting, often pointed leather shoe, reaching to the ankles or higher)

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

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /boːt/
• Rhymes: -oːt

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

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: bote
  • English: boot (as in to boot)
  • → English: bote
  • Scots: bute, buit

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.

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

1. toad (animal)

• boterel

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

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

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

1. strike; hit; blow

• cop

See bat.

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

1. alternative form of bat

See bout.

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

1. alternative form of bout

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “bot”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
• bot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')

• pot (Bavarian)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bod (“command, order”).

bot n

1. (approving) opinion, decision

• gibot (“announcement, order, decree, commandment”)

• Middle High German: bot
  • German: (Early New High German, dialectal) bot

• Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth; Frings, Theodor; et al., editors (1952–2022), “bot”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[10] (in German), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, via Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “bot*”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[11] (in German), 6th edition

• bwat

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot/

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

bot

1. heavy

• Javanese: ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀ (bot)

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

bot

1. style, make

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

• but

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

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bɔt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɔt/

bot m inan (diminutive butek)

1. (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^[12], volume XI (quotation in Old Polish; overall work in Polish, Latin, and Old Polish), 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)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 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)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 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^[13], 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^{transliteration, transcription}, 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^{[14], [15], [16]}, volume XLVII, page 354:

     Wyechecz sz botha *blathra

     [Wiecheć z bota *blathra]

   • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[17], 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^[18], 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^[19], 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]

• Polish: but, bot (Middle Polish), bót (obsolete or dialectal, Lubawa)
• Silesian: bōt

• 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
• Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “but”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎^[20] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “but”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “but”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
• 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

• ᛒᚮᛏ

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

bōt f

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

or

• Swedish: bot

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt/

• Audio:

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

Borrowed from English bot.

bot m animal

1. (computing) bot

See but.

bot m inan (diminutive botek)

1. ankle boot
2. Middle Polish form of but

• “bot”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[21] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bot”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[22] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “bot”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “BUT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.04.2010

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

• Homophone: bote

bot m (plural bots)

1. (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
2. (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)

• бот (bot) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /bot/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ot
• Hyphenation: bot

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.

bot n (plural boturi)

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

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

• cioc
• rât

From English bot.

bot m (plural boți)

1. bot

• “bot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Borrowed from English bot.

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

bot m (plural bots)

1. bot (robot)

• “bot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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.

• IPA^(key): /buːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

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bot c

1. fine (penalty in money)

• 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.

• böta
• bötfälla

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

• IPA^(key): /buːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

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bot c

1. cure; remedy
2. (religious) penance

• bota
• botemedel

Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/

bot c

1. bot (robot)

• “bot”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

bot

1. thigh

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot/

From French botte.

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

1. boot

From English boat

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

1. boat

   Synonym: tekne

bot (genitive bota, plural bots)

1. boat

• “bot”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

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

• IPA^(key): /bot/

bot

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

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	—

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

bot

1. very, quite

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

Uncertain. Possibly derived from etymology 1 in the sense “blunt(-headed fish)”. Compare Dutch bot and English butt (“flatfish”) (and thus the second element of English halibut).

• IPA^(key): /bot/

bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

1. flounder (a type of fish)

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