cabra
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabres)
- goat (animal)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros. Compare Occitan cabra, French chèvre.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈka.βɾə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈka.bɾə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.bɾa]
Audio (Valencian): (file) - Homophone: cabre
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabres)
- goat (mammal)
- nanny goat (female goat)
- goatskin
- crab louse
- Synonyms: lladella, poll del pubis
- European spider crab
- Synonyms: cabra del mar, cranca
Usage notes edit
- The term cabra can be used of a goat in general or of an adult female goat. An adult male goat is either the related term cabró or boc.
Derived terms edit
- cabra blanca (“mountain goat”)
- cabra salvatge
- cabrejar
- cabrella (“little spider crab”)
- cabrellot (“great crested grebe”)
- cabró (“he-goat”)
- cabrot (“he-goat”)
- estar com una cabra (“to be mad/crazy”)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cabra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cabra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Anagrams edit
Franco-Provençal edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cabra (ORB large)
References edit
- cabra in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ka.bʁa/
- Homophones: cabras, cabrât
Verb edit
cabra
- third-person singular past historic of cabrer
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cabra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin capra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabras)
- goat
- Synonym: cabuxa
- blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus)
- (in the plural) stains in the legs caused by excessive heat
- gaper, comber (Serranus cabrilla)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “cabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cabra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cabra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cabra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cabra
- inflection of cabrare:
Anagrams edit
Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabras)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Franco-Provençal: cabra
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -abɾɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧bra
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Catalan cabra, Italian capra, French chèvre and Romanian capră.
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabrão or bode, masculine plural cabrões or bodes)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Old Tupi: kabará
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Variant of cabrão.
Noun edit
cabra m (plural cabras)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
a cabra (third-person singular present cabrează, past participle cabrat) 1st conj.
- (transitive) to rear up (horse)
Conjugation edit
infinitive | a cabra | ||||||
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gerund | cabrând | ||||||
past participle | cabrat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | cabrez | cabrezi | cabrează | cabrăm | cabrați | cabrează | |
imperfect | cabram | cabrai | cabra | cabram | cabrați | cabrau | |
simple perfect | cabrai | cabrași | cabră | cabrarăm | cabrarăți | cabrară | |
pluperfect | cabrasem | cabraseși | cabrase | cabraserăm | cabraserăți | cabraseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să cabrez | să cabrezi | să cabreze | să cabrăm | să cabrați | să cabreze | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | cabrează | cabrați | |||||
negative | nu cabra | nu cabrați |
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabras)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabro, masculine plural cabros)
- female goat
- goat (unknown gender)
- (colloquial, Chile) girl
Usage notes edit
- While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the male is used when the gender is unknown, the words for goat descending from the Latin capra are an exception, with the feminine form used for goats of indeterminate gender.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “cabra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams edit
- Asturian terms inherited from Latin
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- ast:Mammals
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
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- ca:Crabs
- ca:Goats
- ca:Lice
- Franco-Provençal terms borrowed from Occitan
- Franco-Provençal terms derived from Occitan
- ORB large
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- gl:Fish
- gl:Mammals
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/abra
- Rhymes:Italian/abra/2 syllables
- Italian non-lemma forms
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- Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan
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- Languedocien
- oc:Mammals
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/abɾɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abɾɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Northeastern Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Mammals
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- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
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- Rhymes:Spanish/abɾa
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- Chilean Spanish
- es:Astrology
- es:Goats