cobra
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊbɹə/
- Rhymes: -əʊbɹə, -ɒbɹə, -oʊbɹə
Noun
[edit]cobra (plural cobras)
- 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.
- A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
Derived terms
[edit]- Asian cobra, Indian cobra, spectacled cobra
- Cape cobra, yellow cobra
- cobra capella
- cobra effect
- cobralike
- cobra lily
- cobra maneuver
- cobra pose
- cobra roll
- cobratoxin
- cobric
- Egyptian cobra
- Equatorial spitting cobra
- king cobra
- monocled cobra
- Philippine cobra
- Pugachev's Cobra
- snake-eating cobra
- snouted cobra
- spitting cobra
Translations
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of colobra.
Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobres)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
Further reading
[edit]- “cobra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)
- cobra (venomous snake from certain genera of the family Elapidae, especially of the genus Naja)
- (especially) Indian cobra (Naja naja)
- Synonyms: brilslang, gewone cobra, Indiase cobra
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: kobra
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra m (plural cobras)
Further reading
[edit]- “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
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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.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- (historical) stanze
- Synonym: copla
- (archaic) paragraph
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cobra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cobra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- rí-chobra (“king cobra”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cobra | chobra | gcobra |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cobra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “cobra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cobra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra m (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- estrofe
- 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]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Universo Cantigas - "cobra"
Portuguese
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔbɾɐ
- Hyphenation: co‧bra
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.
Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes)
- (strictly, prescribed) cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae)
- Synonym: elapídeo
- (figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)
- (Portugal, figurative) lassitude
- (Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses
- (Portugal, colloquial) drunkenness
- (Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman
- (figuratively, slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
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.
- Some biologists proscribe the use of cobra for all snakes, restricting its use to the family Elapidae as in English.
Derived terms
[edit]- a cobra vai fumar
- andar como cobra quando perde a peçonha
- banha da cobra
- cágado-pescoço-de-cobra
- cipó-de-cobra
- cipó-mata-cobras
- cobra criada
- cobra que não anda, não engole sapo
- cobra-capelo
- cobra-coral
- cobra-cuspidora
- cobra-d'água
- cobra-de-água-de-colar
- cobra-de-capelo
- cobra-de-escada
- cobra-de-vidro
- cobra-lisa-austríaca
- cobra-real
- cobrinha
- Deus não dá asas à cobra
- dizer cobras e lagartos
- engolir cobra
- ficar cobra
- matar a cobra e mostrar o pau
- ninho de cobra
- ser mais fácil uma cobra fumar do que
- ser mau como as cobras
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Guinea-Bissau Creole: kobra
- Indo-Portuguese: cóber
- Kabuverdianu: kóbra
- Korlai Creole Portuguese: kɔb
- Kristang: kobra
- Principense: kobo
- Sãotomense: koblo
- → Arabic: كُوبْرَا (kubrā), كُوبْرَا (kūbrā)
- → Belarusian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- → Bulgarian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- → Czech: kobra
- → Dutch: cobra
- → English: cobra
- → Esperanto: kobro
- → Finnish: kobra
- → German: Kobra
- → Greek: κόμπρα (kómpra)
- → Hindi: कोबरा (kobrā)
- → Hungarian: kobra
- → Ido: kobro
- → Italian: cobra
- → Lower Sorbian: kobra
- → Norwegian: kobra
- → Polish: kobra
- → Romanian: cobră
- → Russian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kȍbra
- → Slovak: kobra
- → Spanish: cobra
- → Swedish: kobra
- → Turkish: kobra
- → Ukrainian: ко́бра (kóbra)
Noun
[edit]cobra m or f by sense (plural cobras)
- (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert
Adjective
[edit]cobra m or f (plural cobras)
- (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- Alternative form of copla
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
Further reading
[edit]- “cobra”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “cobra”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “cobra”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “cobra”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “cobra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.
Noun
[edit]cobra f (plural cobras)
- cobra
- 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]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cobra
- inflection of cobrar:
Further reading
[edit]- “cobra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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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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- Rhymes:English/ɒbɹə
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- Rhymes:English/oʊbɹə
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- en:Elapid snakes
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- ca:Elapid snakes
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔbra
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