cobra

English

Wikipedia

An Egyptian Cobra

Etymology

From Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkəʊbrə/

Noun

cobra (plural cobras)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.

Translations

venomous snake

Arabic: كوبرا (ar) (kúbra, kūbrā) f. Belarusian: кобра (be) (kóbra) f. Bulgarian: кобра (bg) (kóbra) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 眼鏡蛇 (zh), 眼镜蛇 (zh) (yǎnjìngshé) Czech: kobra (cs) f. Esperanto: kobro (eo) Finnish: kobra (fi), silmälasikäärme (fi) French: naja (fr) Galician: cobra (gl) f. German: Kobra (de) f. Greek: κόμπρα (el) (kóbra) f. Hindi: कोबरा (hi) (kobrā) Ido: kobro (io) Italian: cobra (it) m. Japanese: コブラ (ja) (kobura) Korean: 코브라 (ko) (kobeura)

Malay: tedung (ms) Navajo: tłʼiish bikʼós niteelígíí Polish: kobra (pl) f. Portuguese: cobra (pt) f. Russian: кобра (ru) (kóbra) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кобра (sh) f. Roman: kobra (sh) f. Slovak: kobra (sk) f. Spanish: cobra (es) f. Tagalog: ulupong (tl) Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (naagam), நாகப்பாம்பு (ta) (naagappaambu) Telugu: నాగుపాము (te) (naagu) Thai: งูเห่า (th) (nguu hào) Turkish: kobra (tr) Ukrainian: кобра (uk) (kóbra) f. Wolof: saamaan mi (wo)

Derived terms

• spitting cobra

Anagrams

• carbo, carob, CORBA

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Catalan

Verb

cobra

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of cobrar.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of cobrar.

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Galician

Noun

cobra f. (plural cobras)

1. snake
2. cobra

Synonyms

• (snake): serpe

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Italian

Noun

cobra m. inv.

1. cobra

Anagrams

• cabro, cabrò
• corba

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.bɾa/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colūbra (“snake”).

Noun

cobra f. (plural cobras)

1. snake
2. cobra

Synonyms

• serpente, ofídio

Related terms

• ofídico
• cobreiro, cobrejar, cobrelo

Descendants

• English: cobra

Etymology 2

Verb

cobra

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of verb cobrar.
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of verb cobrar.

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).

Noun

cobra f. (plural cobras)

1. cobra

Related terms

• serpiente
• reptil
• veneno
• mordida

Etymology 2

See cobrar.

Verb

cobra (infinitive cobrar)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cobrar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cobrar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cobrar.