cove

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

Etymology 1

From Old English cofa, from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with German Koben, Swedish kofva.

Noun

cove (plural coves)

1. (now rare) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. [from 9th c.]
2. (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. [from 16th c.]
3. A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds. [from 16th c.]
4. (now dialectal) A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain. [from 19th c.]
5. (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship. [from 19th c.]
6. (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level. [from 19th c.]

Translations

rare: hollow in a rock

• Greek: σπήλαιο (el) (spílaio) (spileo)

architecture: concave vault

• Greek: αψίδα (el) (apsída) καμάρα (el) (kamára) θόλος (el) (thólos) (apsida - kamara - tholos)

small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds

• Bulgarian: заливче (bg) (zalivče) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小海湾 (cmn)

• Dutch: baai (nl) c
• Finnish: poukama (fi), lahti (fi)
• French: crique (fr) f
• Greek: όρμος (el) (órmos), αραξοβόλι (el) (araxovóli)(ormos - araksovoli)

• Hungarian: öböl (hu)
• Italian: calanca (it) f
• Occitan: calanca (oc) f
• Portuguese: enseada (pt)
• Romanian: golf (ro)
• Spanish: ensenada

dialectal: recess on slope of mountain

wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship

thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht’s strake below deck level

Verb

cove (third-person singular simple present coves, present participle coving, simple past and past participle coved)

1. (architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
   • H. Swinburne

     The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.

Etymology 2

From Romani kodo (“this one, him”) . This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

Noun

cove (plural coves)

1. (UK) A fellow; a man.
2. (Australia) A friend; a mate.

Derived terms

• Abram cove
• badge-cove
• bang up cove

Translations

fellow; man

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小伙子 (cmn)

• Dutch: kerel (nl) m

• Finnish: kaveri (fi), heppu (fi)
• Hebrew: מפרצון (he) m
• Hungarian: szerzet (hu) (slang), fazon (hu) (slang)

friend; mate

• Dutch: maat (nl) m
• Finnish: kaveri (fi), heppu (fi)

• Hungarian: haver (hu)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cophinus, from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kophinos, “basket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɔβə/, X-SAMPA: /"kOB@/

Noun

cove m (plural coves)

1. A large basket

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈko.ve/
• Hyphenation: có‧ve

Noun

cove f

1. Plural form of cova

Anagrams

• voce