cobra

English

an Egyptian cobra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/

• Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊbɹə/
• Rhymes: -əʊbɹə, -ɒbɹə, -oʊbɹə

Noun

cobra (plural cobras)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.

2. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

Derived terms

• Asian cobra, Indian cobra, spectacled cobra
• Cape cobra, yellow cobra
• cobra effect
• cobra lily
• cobra maneuver
• cobra pose
• cobra roll
• cobratoxin
• Egyptian cobra
• Equatorial spitting cobra
• king cobra
• monocled cobra
• Philippine cobra
• Pugachev's Cobra
• spitting cobra

 

Translations

venomous snake

• Arabic: كُوبْرَا‎ f (kubrā), كُوبْرَا‎ f (kūbrā), بَزَّاقَة‎ (bazzāqa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: ফেঁটী সাপ (phẽti xap)
• Atayal: kbibing
• Azerbaijani: gözlüklü ilan
• Belarusian: ко́бра f (kóbra)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ко́бра (bg) f (kóbra)
• Burmese: မြွေဟောက် (my) (mrwehauk)
• Catalan: cobra (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏆᎾᏓᏲᎭ (quanadayoha)
• Cheyenne: a'kêstséašé'šenovôtse
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼鏡蛇 (zh), 眼镜蛇 (zh) (yǎnjìngshé)

• Czech: kobra (cs) f
• Danish: kobra c
• Dutch: cobra (nl), brilslang (nl)
• Egyptian: (ḏt)
• Esperanto: kobro
• Finnish: kobra (fi), silmälasikäärme (fi)
• French: naja (fr), cobra (fr) m
• Galician: cobra (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kobra (de) f
• Greek: κόμπρα (el) f (kómpra)
• Hindi: कोबरा (kobrā), भुजंग (hi) m (bhujaṅg), काला (hi) m (kālā) (colloquial)
• Hungarian: kobra (hu)
• Ido: kobro (io)
• Indonesian: kobra (id), tedung (id)
• Irish: cobra m
• Italian: cobra (it) m
• Japanese: コブラ (ja) (kobura), 眼鏡蛇 (ja) (meganehebi)
• Khmer: ពស់វែក (pŭəhvɛɛk)
• Korean: 코브라 (ko) (kobeura)
• Malay: tedung
• Malayalam: മൂർഖൻ (ml) (mūṟkhaṉ)
• Maori: kaupara
• Mon:ဇြုံဇာတ် (mnw)
• Mongolian: наж могой (naž mogoj)
• Navajo: tłʼiish bikʼós niteelígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kobra m

  Nynorsk: kobra m

• Pali: kaṇhagotamaka m, nāga m, ^{(please verify)} ahivisa n
• Polish: kobra (pl) f
• Portuguese: naja (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਨਾਗ m (nāg)
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: cobră (ro) f, cobra f
• Russian: ко́бра (ru) f (kóbra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏бра f

  Roman: kȍbra (sh) f

• Slovak: kobra f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kobra f

• Spanish: cobra (es) f
• Swedish: kobra (sv) c, glasögonorm (sv)
• Tagalog: ulupong
• Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam), நாகப்பாம்பு (ta) (nākappāmpu)
• Telugu: నాగుపాము (te) (nāgupāmu)
• Thai: งูเห่า (th) (nguu hào)
• Turkish: kobra (tr), gözlüklü yılan
• Ukrainian: ко́бра (uk) f (kóbra)
• Vietnamese: rắn hổ mang (vi), hổ mang (vi)
• Welsh: cobra m or f
• Wolof: saamaan mi
• Yoruba: ejo ṣebe

See also

• cobra de capello (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• Barco, CORBA, Carbo, carbo, carbo-, carob, coarb

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of colobra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾa/

Noun

cobra f (plural cobres)

1. cobra

Derived terms

• cobra d'ulleres
• cobra escopidora
• cobra reial

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cobra

1. third-person singular present indicative form of cobrar
2. second-person singular imperative form of cobrar

Further reading

• “cobra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.braː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: co‧bra

Noun

cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)

1. cobra, venomous snake from certain genera of the family Elapidae, especially of the genus Naja
2. (especially) Indian cobra (Naja naja)

   Synonyms: brilslang, gewone cobra, Indiase cobra

Derived terms

• cobralelie
• gewone cobra
• Indiase cobra
• koningscobra

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kobra

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.bʁa/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cobra m (plural cobras)

1. cobra (snake)

Further reading

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

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Galician

Cobra rateira or cobregón (Montpellier snake), in SW Galicia

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese coobra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

• cóbrega, quiobra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. snake

   Synonym: serpe

2. cobra

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. (historical) stanze

   Synonym: copla

2. (archaic) paragraph
   • 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega

     vay todo escripto en hua cobra et man de papel et cosido con fio branco de linno et ennas juntas meu nome

References

• “cobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “coobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cobra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cobra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cobra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cobra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔbˠɾˠə/

Noun

cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)

1. cobra

Declension

Declension of cobra

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cobra cobraí Vocative a chobra a chobraí Genitive cobra cobraí Dative cobra cobraí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cobra na cobraí Genitive an chobra na gcobraí Dative leis an gcobra don chobra leis na cobraí

Derived terms

• rí-chobra (“king cobra”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cobra	chobra	gcobra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cobra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “cobra” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “cobra” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bra/
• Rhymes: -ɔbra
• Hyphenation: cò‧bra

Noun

cobra m (invariable)

1. cobra

Derived terms

• cobra dagli occhiali
• cobra egiziano
• cobralisina
• cobraterapia
• cobratossina

 

References

• cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• braco, cabro, cabrò, carbo-, corba

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Portuguese

cobra (Naja philippinensis)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾɐ/ [ˈkɔ.βɾɐ]

• Hyphenation: co‧bra

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. snake

   Synonyms: serpente, ofídio

Usage notes

• The gender of this Portuguese word is always feminine. When the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “cobra macho” for male, and “cobra fêmea” for female.

Related terms

• cobreiro
• cobrejar
• cobrelo
• ofídico

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kobra
• Indo-Portuguese: cóber
• Kabuverdianu: kóbra
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: kɔb
• Kristang: kobra
• Principense: kobo
• Sãotomense: koblo
• → Arabic: كُوبْرَا‎ (kubrā), كُوبْرَا‎ (kūbrā)
• → Belarusian: ко́бра (kóbra)
• → Bulgarian: ко́бра (kóbra)
• → Czech: kobra
• → Dutch: cobra
• → English: cobra
  • → Irish: cobra
  • → Japanese: コブラ (kobura)
  • → Korean: 코브라 (kobeura)
  • → Welsh: cobra
• → Esperanto: kobro
• → Finnish: kobra
• → German: Kobra
• → Greek: κόμπρα (kómpra)
• → Hindi: कोबरा (kobrā)
• → Hungarian: kobra
• → Ido: kobro
• → Italian: cobra
• → Lower Sorbian: kobra
• → Norwegian: kobra
• → Polish: kobra
• → Romanian: cobră
• → Russian: ко́бра (kóbra)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kȍbra
• → Slovak: kobra
• → Spanish: cobra
• → Swedish: kobra
• → Turkish: kobra
• → Ukrainian: ко́бра (kóbra)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cobra

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkobɾa/ [ˈko.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -obɾa
• Syllabification: co‧bra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. cobra
2. the act of hacer la cobra
   • 2016 November 11, “El vídeo que desmonta la ‘cobra’ de Bisbal a Chenoa”, in El Español‎^[1]:

Derived terms

• cobra real
• hacer la cobra

Related terms

• culebra

See also

• serpiente
• reptil
• veneno
• mordida

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cobra

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

Further reading

• “cobra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔbra/

Noun

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobraod)

1. cobra

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cobra	gobra	nghobra	chobra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cobra”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies