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cabra

See also: Cabra, cabrá, and cabrà

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin capra.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkabɾa/, [ˈka.β̞ɾa]

Noun

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cabra f (plural cabres)

  1. goat (animal)

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros. Compare Occitan cabra, French chèvre.

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Noun

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cabra f (plural cabres)

  1. goat (mammal)
  2. nanny goat (female goat)
  3. goatskin
  4. crab louse
    Synonyms: lladella, poll del pubis
  5. European spider crab
    Synonyms: cabra del mar, cranca

Usage notes

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  • 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.

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Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Occitan cabra.

Noun

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cabra (ORB, broad)

  1. Alternative form of chiévra (“goat”)

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  • cabra in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

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Verb

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cabra

  1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cabra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin capra.

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Noun

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cabra f (plural cabras)

  1. goat
    Synonym: cabuxa
  2. blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus)
  3. (in the plural) stains in the legs caused by excessive heat
  4. gaper, comber (Serranus cabrilla)

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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈka.bra/
  • Rhymes: -abra
  • Hyphenation: cà‧bra

Verb

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cabra

  1. inflection of cabrare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

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Noun

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cabra f (plural cabras)

  1. (Languedoc) goat
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Descendants

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  • → Franco-Provençal: cabra

Portuguese

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cabra

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -abɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧bra

Etymology 1

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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

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cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabrão or bode, masculine plural cabrões or bodes)

  1. she-goat; nanny goat (female goat)
  2. (vulgar, offensive, regional) bitch (despicable woman)
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Etymology 2

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Variant of cabrão.

Noun

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cabra m (plural cabras)

  1. (Northeast Brazil) guy, dude

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French cabrer.

Verb

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a cabra (third-person singular present cabrează, past participle cabrat) 1st conj.

  1. (transitive) to rear up (horse)

Conjugation

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    conjugation of cabra (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a cabra
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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

Noun

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cabra f (plural cabras)

  1. goat

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

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cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabro, masculine plural cabros)

  1. female goat
  2. goat (unknown gender)
  3. (colloquial, Chile) girl

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  • 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.

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