Coimbra

See also: Coímbra and Coïmbra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Coimbra, from Old Galician-Portuguese Coimbra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kwēɴʹbrə, ko͞o.ēɴʹbrə, kō.ēɴʹbrə; IPA^(key): /ˈkwĩbɹə/, /kuːˈĩbɹə/, /kəʊˈĩbɹə/

Proper noun

Coimbra

1. A district in central Portugal.
2. A city and municipality of Coimbra district, Portugal.
3. A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Translations

district in central Portugal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科英布拉 (Kēyīngbùlā)

• Portuguese: Coimbra (pt)

city and municipality in Coimbra, Portugal

• Arabic: قلمرية
• Aragonese: Coimbra
• Armenian: Կոիմբրա (Koimbra)
• Azerbaijani: Koimbra
• Basque: Coimbra
• Belarusian: Каімбра (Kaimbra)
• Breton: Coimbra
• Bulgarian: Кои́мбра (Koímbra)
• Catalan: Coïmbra
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科英布拉 (Kēyīngbùlā)

  Wu: 科英布拉

• Cornish: Coimbra
• Czech: Coimbra
• Danish: Coimbra (da)
• Dutch: Coimbra
• Esperanto: Koimbro
• Estonian: Coimbra
• Extremaduran: Coimbra
• Finnish: Coimbra
• French: Coïmbre (fr)
• Galician: Coímbra (gl)
• Georgian: კოიმბრა (ḳoimbra)
• German: Coimbra
• Greek: Κοΐμπρα (Koḯmpra)
• Hebrew: קוימברה
• Hungarian: Coimbra (hu)
• Icelandic: Coimbra
• Ido: Coimbra
• Indonesian: Coimbra
• Italian: Coimbra
• Japanese: コインブラ (Koimbura)
• Korean: 코임브라 (koimbeura)
• Latin: Conimbriga
• Latvian: Koimbra
• Lithuanian: Koimbra
• Lombard: Coimbra
• Malay: Coimbra
• Marathi: कुइंब्रा (kuimbrā)
• Mazanderani: کویمبرا
• Mirandese: Coimbra
• Norwegian: Coimbra (no)

  Bokmål: Coimbra (no)

  Nynorsk: Coimbra

• Occitan: Coïmbra
• Persian: کویمبرا
• Polish: Coimbra
• Portuguese: Coimbra (pt) f
• Quechua: Coimbra
• Romanian: Coimbra
• Russian: Кои́мбра (ru) (Koímbra)
• Sardinian: Coimbra
• Scots: Coimbra
• Scottish Gaelic: Coimbra
• Serbo-Croatian: Coimbra, Коимбра
• Slovak: Coimbra
• Spanish: Coímbra (es)
• Swedish: Coimbra
• Tetum: Koímbra
• Thai: กูอิงบรา
• Turkish: Coimbra
• Ukrainian: Коїмбра (Kojimbra)
• Urdu: کویمبرا
• Venetian: Coinvra
• Veps: Koimbr
• Vietnamese: Coimbra
• Volapük: Coimbra
• Waray-Waray: Coimbra
• Western Panjabi: کوئیمبرا

municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Bishnupriya Manipuri: কোইমব্রা
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科英布拉 (Kēyīngbùlā)

• Portuguese: Coimbra (pt) f

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin Conimbriga (“Condeixa-a-Velha”).

Proper noun

Coimbra

1. A city in central Portugal.

Descendants

• Portuguese: Coimbra

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "Coimbra"

Portuguese

Coimbra

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Coimbra, from Latin Conimbriga (“Condeixa-a-Velha”), with the first element possibly being named after the Conii people, and the second element from Proto-Celtic *brigā. Doublet of Conímbriga.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈĩ.bɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈĩ.bɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈĩ.bɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkwĩ.bɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -ĩbɾɐ
• Hyphenation: Co‧im‧bra

• Audio (Portugal)

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Proper noun

Coimbra f

1. Coimbra (a district in central Portugal)
2. Coimbra (a city and municipality of Coimbra district, Portugal)
3. A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Usage notes

Coimbra is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Derived terms

• coimbrão
• coimbrense

 

Related terms

• Coimbrões
• colimbriense
• conimbricense

 

Descendants

• → English: Coimbra

Proper noun

Coimbra m or f

1. a surname

Further reading

• Coimbra on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt