cobaia
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobaia f (plural cobaias)
Portuguese
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Two_adult_Guinea_Pigs_%28Cavia_porcellus%29.jpg/220px-Two_adult_Guinea_Pigs_%28Cavia_porcellus%29.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From or sharing an origin with Spanish cobaya, from Old Tupi.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ajɐ
- Hyphenation: co‧bai‧a
Noun
[edit]cobaia f (plural cobaias)
- Synonym of porquinho-da-índia
- (figuratively) guinea pig (volunteer for an experiment)
Descendants
[edit]- → French: cobaye
Categories:
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Mammals
- pt:Caviomorphs
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ajɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ajɐ/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns