cabra

See also: Cabra, cabrá, and cabrà

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin capra.

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (animal)

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾa/

• Audio (Valencian)

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• Homophone: cabre

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (mammal)

Usage notes

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

• cabrot m (“male goat”)
• estar com una cabra (“to be mad, crazy”, literally “to be like a goat”)

 

Related terms

• cabirol
• cabrer
• cabrit
• cabró

 

Anagrams

• barca

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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan cabra, from Latin capra. Doublet of inherited chiévra.

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat

   Synonym: chiévra

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁa/
• Homophones: cabras, cabrât

Verb

cabra

1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

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Galician

Alternative forms

• craba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaβɾa̝/

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• Cabra
• Cabrais
• Cabral
• Cabrariza
• Cabras
• Cabreira
• cabreiro
• Cabreiroá
• Cabreiros
• Cabrita
• Cabrois
• cabrón

 

References

• “cabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cabra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Italian

Verb

cabra

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

Anagrams

• barca, braca

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• chabra
• craba (Gascony, Languedoc)

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaβro]

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. (Languedoc) goat

Related terms

• cabrada
• cabraire, cabraira
• cabraudejar
• cabreta
• cabriboc
• cabrièr
• cabrit, cabrida

 

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Portuguese

cabra

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”). Compare Spanish cabra, Catalan cabra, Italian capra, French chèvre and Romanian capră.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.βɾɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

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

Derived terms

• cabrão

Related terms

• cabreiro
• cabrito

 

See also

• bode

Etymology 2

Variant of cabrão

Noun

cabra m (plural cabras)

(Northeast Brazil) guy, dude

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Sardinian

Alternative forms

• capra, craba

Etymology

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

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. goat

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/, [ˈka.β̞ɾa]

• Audio (Spain)

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Noun

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

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

Usage notes

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

• barba de cabra
• cabrear
• cabrearse
• cabrilla
• cabrón
• chotacabras
• chupacabras
• como una cabra
• emborrachacabras
• estar más loco que una cabra
• la cabra siempre tira al monte
• pie de cabra

 

Related terms

• cabrahigo
• cabrero
• cabrita
• cabrito
• cabruno
• caprarius
• caprifoliáceo

 

See also

• chiva f
• chivo m

Anagrams

• barca

Further reading

• “cabra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.