cobra
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
cobra (plural cobras)
Derived terms
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Catalan
Verb
cobra
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.
Pronunciation
Noun
cobra m (plural cobras)
- cobra (snake)
References
- “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese coobra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
cobra f (plural cobras)
Etymology 2
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- Template:R:DDGM
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- “cobra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)
Declension
Derived terms
- rí-chobra (“king cobra”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cobra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cobra m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Anagrams
References
- cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: co‧bra
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.
Noun
cobra f (plural s)
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
Descendants
- 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)
- 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
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.
Noun
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
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See also
Etymology 2
See cobrar.
Verb
cobra
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cobrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cobrar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of cobrar.
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation
Noun
cobra m or f (plural cobraod)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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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
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