couve

See also: couvé

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuv/
• Homophones: couves, couvent

Verb

couve

1. inflection of couver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

couve

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese couve, from earlier *coue, from Latin caulem (“stem of a cabbage”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”). Doublet of caule.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).vi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).vi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).vi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).vi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).ve/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).ve]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).vɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).vɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkow.bɨ/ [ˈkow.βɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko.vɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ovi, -owvi, (Portugal) -ovɨ, -owvɨ
• Hyphenation: cou‧ve

Noun

couve f (plural couves)

1. several leaf vegetables, from the family Brassica oleracea
2. kale (plant)
3. cabbage (plant)

   Synonym: repolho

4. collard greens (plant)

   Synonym: couve-galega

5. couves (small truck on horse or rope hauled railway)

Hypernyms

• crucíferas, brassicáceas

Derived terms

• couval
• couve-brócolo
• couve-cavalar
• couve-crespa
• couve-de-bruxelas
• couve-de-saboia
• couve-flor
• couve-frisada
• couve-galega
• couve-lombarda
• couve-nabo
• couve-portuguesa
• couve-rábano
• couve-repolho
• couve-repolho-branco
• couve-repolhuda
• couve-roxa
• couve-tronchuda

Related terms

• caule
• chucrute

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કોબી (kobī), (from the plural) કોબીજ (kobīj)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: गोभी (gobhī)

  Urdu: گوبھی (gobhī)

  • → Burmese: ဂေါ်ဖီ (gauhpi)
  • → English: gobi, gobhi
  • → Pashto: ګوبي
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਗੋਭੀ (gobhī)

    Shahmukhi script: گوبھی (gobhī)

• → Konkani: कोब (kob)
• → Malay: kubis, kobis
  • Indonesian: kubis
• → Marathi: कोबी (kobī)
• → Middle Bengali: *কবি (*kbi)
  • Bengali: কপি (kopi)
  • →? Assamese: কবি (kobi)
    • → Manipuri: ꯀꯣꯕꯤ (kobi)
  • → Odia: କୋବି (kobi)
• → Sindhi:

  Devanagari script: कोबी (kobī)

  Arabic script: گوبيِ (kobī)

• → Tetum: kouve

Further reading

• “couve”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “couve”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “couve”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “couve”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026