cobra

English

an Egyptian cobra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cobra (plural cobras)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     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
• Egyptian cobra
• king cobra
• monocled cobra
• spitting cobra

 

Translations

venomous snake

• Arabic: كُوبْرَا‎ f (kubrā), كُوبْرَا‎ f (kūbrā), بَزَّاقَة‎ (bazzāqa)
• Assamese: ফেঁটী সাপ (phẽti xap)
• Atayal: kbibing
• Belarusian: ко́бра f (kóbra)
• Bulgarian: ко́бра (bg) f (kóbra)
• Burmese: မြွေဟောက် (my) (mrwehauk)
• 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
• 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)
• Irish: cobra m
• Italian: cobra (it) m
• Japanese: コブラ (ja) (kobura), 眼鏡蛇 (ja) (meganehebi)
• Korean: 코브라 (ko) (kobeura)
• Malay: tedung

• Maori: kaupara
• Mongolian: наж могой (naž mogoj)
• Navajo: tłʼiish bikʼós niteelígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kobra m

  Nynorsk: kobra m

• Polish: kobra (pl) f
• Portuguese: naja (pt) f
• 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)
• Ukrainian: ко́бра (uk) f (kóbra)
• Vietnamese: rắn hổ mang (vi), hổ mang (vi)
• Welsh: cobra m or f
• Wolof: saamaan mi

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Verb

cobra

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

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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

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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)

References

• “cobra” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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 Latin colubra (“snake”).

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 2006-2012.
• “coobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “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

• "cobra" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “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/, [ˈkɔːbr̺ä]
• Rhymes: -ɔbra
• Hyphenation: cò‧bra

Noun

cobra m (invariable)

1. cobra

Derived terms

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

 

Anagrams

• cabro, cabrò, corba

References

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

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Portuguese

cobra (Naja philippinensis)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bɾa/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.βɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: co‧bra

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). 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

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

Etymology 2

Verb

cobra

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cobrar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cobrar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkobɾa/, [ˈkoβɾa]

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^[2]:

Derived terms

• cobra real
• hacer la cobra

Related terms

• culebra

See also

• serpiente
• reptil
• veneno
• mordida

Etymology 2

See cobrar.

Verb

cobra

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cobrar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cobrar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cobrar.

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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 (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