copra

English

Alternative forms

• coprah (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese copra, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra). Cognate with Tamil கொப்பரை (kopparai), Kuvi କବ୍ରି (kobri), Sanskrit कूर्पस (kūrpasa), Hindi खोपा (khopā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.pɹə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

copra (countable and uncountable, plural copras)

1. The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
   • 1993, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2018, page 188:

     The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him.

Translations

dried kernel of coconut

• Bikol Central: lukad (bcl)
• Bulgarian: копра f (kopra)
• Catalan: copra f
• Czech: kopra (cs) f
• Danish: kopra c
• Dutch: kopra (nl) m or f
• Finnish: kopra (fi)
• French: coprah (fr) m
• German: Kopra (de) f
• Greek: καρυδόψιχα (el) f (karydópsicha)
• Gujarati: કોપરું (koprũ)
• Hebrew: קופרה (he) f
• Hungarian: kopra (hu)
• Indonesian: kopra (id)
• Irish: copra m
• Italian: copra (it) f
• Japanese: コプラ (ja) (kopura)
• Khmer: ខូប្រា (khoupriə)
• Konkani: khobrem (Goan Konkani)
• Lithuanian: kopra ?
• Malayalam: കൊപ്ര (ml) (kopra)
• Marathi: खोबरे n (khobre)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mbatra
• Norwegian: kopra m
• Persian: مغز نارگیل
• Polish: kopra (pl) f
• Portuguese: copra (pt) f
• Russian: ко́пра (ru) f (kópra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏пра f

  Roman: kȍpra (sh) f

• Spanish: copra (es) f
• Swahili: nguta
• Swedish: kopra (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalibkib, kopra
• Tamil: கொப்பரை (ta) (kopparai)
• Telugu: కొబ్బరి (te) (kobbari)
• Ukrainian: копра f (kopra)
• Waray-Waray: lugit

Anagrams

• Carpo, Crapo, carpo-

French

Noun

copra m (plural copras)

1. alternative spelling of coprah

Irish

Etymology

From English copra, from Portuguese, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”).

Noun

copra m (genitive singular copra)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

Declension

Declension of copra (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative copra vocative a chopra genitive copra dative copra forms with the definite article singular nominative an copra genitive an chopra dative leis an gcopra don chopra

Mutation

Mutated forms of copra

radical	lenition	eclipsis
copra	chopra	gcopra

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “copra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “copra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “copra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

Italian

Verb

copra

1. inflection of coprire (“to cover; to heap”):
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, parco, parcò, porca

Portuguese

Etymology

From Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.pɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: co‧pra

Noun

copra f (plural copras)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

Descendants

• → English: copra, coprah (archaic)
• → French: coprah
• → Irish: copra