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cobra

See also: Cobra, COBRA, cobrá, cobrà, and cobră

English edit

 
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an Egyptian cobra

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Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).

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cobra (plural cobras)

  1. Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.
  2. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

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Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of colobra.

Noun edit

cobra f (plural cobres)

  1. cobra
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

cobra

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

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.braː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: co‧bra

Noun edit

cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)

  1. cobra (venomous snake from certain genera of the family Elapidae, especially of the genus Naja)
  2. (especially) Indian cobra (Naja naja)
    Synonyms: brilslang, gewone cobra, Indiase cobra

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Descendants edit

  • → Indonesian: kobra

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.

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cobra m (plural cobras)

  1. cobra (snake)
    Synonym: naja

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Galician edit

 
Cobra rateira or cobregón (Montpellier snake), in SW Galicia

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese coobra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin.

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cobra f (plural cobras)

  1. snake
    Synonym: serpe
  2. cobra

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.

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cobra f (plural cobras)

  1. (historical) stanze
    Synonym: copla
  2. (archaic) paragraph

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cobra

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

References edit

  • “cobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “coobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “coobra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cobra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cobra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).

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Noun edit

cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)

  1. cobra

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Declension of cobra

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cobra cobraí
Vocative a chobra a chobraí
Genitive cobra cobraí
Dative cobra cobraí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cobra na cobraí
Genitive an chobra na gcobraí
Dative leis an gcobra

don chobra

leis na cobraí

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Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cobra chobra gcobra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).

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cobra m (invariable)

  1. cobra

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Further reading edit

  • cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin cōpula.

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cobra f (plural cobras)

  1. estrofe
  2. paragraph
    • 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega:
      vay todo escripto en hua cobra et man de papel et cosido con fio branco de linno et ennas juntas meu nome
      all writen in a single paragraph in a hand of paper and sewn with white linen thread and on the joints my name

Further reading edit

  • “cobra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “cobra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • Universo Cantigas - "cobra"

Portuguese edit

 
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cobra (Naja philippinensis)

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Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.

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cobra f (plural cobras)

  1. snake
    Synonyms: serpente, ofídio
  2. (figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)
  3. (Portugal, figurative) lassitude
  4. (Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses
  5. (Portugal, colloquial) drunkenness
  6. (Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman
  7. (figuratively, slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick
Usage notes edit
  • The gender of this Portuguese word is always feminine. When the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “cobra-macho” for male, and “cobra-fêmea” for female.
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cobra m or f by sense (plural cobras)

  1. (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert

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cobra m or f (plural cobras)

  1. (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

cobra f (plural cobras)

  1. Alternative form of copla

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

cobra

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

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkobɾa/ [ˈko.β̞ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -obɾa
  • Syllabification: co‧bra

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.

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cobra f (plural cobras)

  1. cobra
  2. the act of hacer la cobra
    • 2016 November 11, “El vídeo que desmonta la ‘cobra’ de Bisbal a Chenoa”, in El Español‎[1]:
Derived terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

cobra

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

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Welsh edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobraod)

  1. cobra

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cobra gobra nghobra chobra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cobra”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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