A slight adjustment of spelling, and rabota became the Czech robota, which, in addition to defining the toil of the serfs, was also used figuratively to describe any kind of hard work or drudgery.
Malom prilagodbom u pisanju rabota je postala robota na češkom, koja se, da bi definirala napor kmetova, koristila i figurativno za opis bilo kojeg teškog ili napornog rada.