cobra
English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊbɹə/
- Rhymes: -əʊbɹə, -ɒbɹə, -oʊbɹə
Noun[edit]
cobra (plural cobras)
- 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.
- A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
- cobra de capello (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of colobra.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra f (plural cobres)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cobra
- third-person singular present indicative form of cobrar
- second-person singular imperative form of cobrar
Further reading[edit]
- “cobra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)
- cobra, venomous snake from certain genera of the family Elapidae, especially of the genus Naja
- (especially) Indian cobra (Naja naja)
- Synonyms: brilslang, gewone cobra, Indiase cobra
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: kobra
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra m (plural cobras)
- cobra (snake)
Further reading[edit]
- “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra f (plural cobras)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra f (plural cobras)
- (historical) stanze
- Synonym: copla
- (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
- 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega
References[edit]
- “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.
Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- rí-chobra (“king cobra”)
Mutation[edit]
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[edit]
- 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.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra m (invariable)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams[edit]
Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: co‧bra
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
cobra f (plural cobras)
Usage notes[edit]
- 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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- 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
- → 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[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.
Noun[edit]
cobra f (plural cobras)
- cobra
- 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[edit]
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
Further reading[edit]
- “cobra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cobra m or f by sense (plural cobraod)
Mutation[edit]
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[edit]
- 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
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- gl:Snakes
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔbra
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- it:Snakes
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- pt:Snakes
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- es:Snakes
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- cy:Snakes