cobra
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“female snake”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊbɹə/
- Rhymes: -əʊbɹə, -ɒbɹə, -oʊbɹə
Noun
[edit]cobra (plural cobras)
- Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of colobra.
Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobres)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection 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 Galician-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)
Further reading
[edit]- “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
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Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-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-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- (historical) stanze
- Synonym: copla
- (archaic) paragraph
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cobra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cobra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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
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Derived terms
[edit]- rí-chobra (“king cobra”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cobra | chobra | gcobra |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cobra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “cobra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cobra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra m (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- estrofe
- paragraph
- 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, 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
- all written in a single paragraph in a hand of paper and sewn with white linen thread and on the joints my name
Further reading
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Universo Cantigas - "cobra"
Portuguese
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔbɾɐ
- Hyphenation: co‧bra
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-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)
- snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes)
- (strictly, prescriptive) cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae)
- Synonym: elapídeo
- (figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)
- (Portugal, figurative) lassitude
- (Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses
- (Portugal, colloquial) drunkenness
- (Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman
- (figuratively, slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
Usage notes
[edit]- The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always feminine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “cobra macho” for male, and “cobra fêmea” for female. Here, macho is treated as an undeclinable noun and don't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to macha if so.
- Some biologists proscribe the use of cobra for all snakes, restricting its use to the family Elapidae as in English.
Derived terms
[edit]- a cobra vai fumar
- andar como cobra quando perde a peçonha
- banha da cobra
- cágado-pescoço-de-cobra
- cipó-de-cobra
- cipó-mata-cobras
- cobra criada
- cobra que não anda, não engole sapo
- cobra-capelo
- cobra-coral
- cobra-cuspidora
- cobra-d'água
- cobra-de-água-de-colar
- cobra-de-capelo
- cobra-de-escada
- cobra-de-vidro
- cobra-lisa-austríaca
- cobra-real
- cobrinha
- Deus não dá asas à cobra
- dizer cobras e lagartos
- engolir cobra
- ficar cobra
- matar a cobra e mostrar o pau
- ninho de cobra
- ser mais fácil uma cobra fumar do que
- ser mau como as cobras
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)
Noun
[edit]cobra m or f by sense (plural cobras)
- (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert
Adjective
[edit]cobra m or f (plural cobras)
- (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- Alternative form of copla
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
Further reading
[edit]- “cobra”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “cobra”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “cobra”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “cobra”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “cobra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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]radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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cobra | gobra | nghobra | chobra |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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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- Rhymes:English/oʊbɹə
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- en:Elapid snakes
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- pt:Snakes
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- Rhymes:Spanish/obɾa
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