cobra
English
an Egyptian cobra
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊbɹə/
Noun
cobra (plural cobras)
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Translations
venomous snake
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Anagrams
Catalan
Verb
cobra
- third-person singular present indicative form of cobrar
- second-person singular imperative form of cobrar
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Noun
cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.bʁa/
Audio (file)
Noun
cobra m (plural cobras)
- cobra (snake)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Noun
cobra f (plural cobras)
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔbˠɾˠə/
Noun
cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)
Declension
Declension of cobra
Fourth declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- rí-chobra (“king cobra”)
Mutation
| 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
- "cobra" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “cobra” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Entries containing “cobra” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra.
Noun
cobra m (invariable)
Anagrams
Portuguese
cobra (Naja philippinensis)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”).
Noun
cobra f (plural cobras)
Usage notes
Related terms
Terms related to cobra
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Descendants
- 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)
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: kobra
- Hindi: कोबरा (kobrā)
- Hungarian: kobra
- Ido: kobro
- Indo-Portuguese: cóber
- Italian: cobra
- Japanese: コブラ (kobura)
- Kabuverdianu: kóbra
- Korean: 코브라 (kobeura)
- Korlai Creole Portuguese: kɔb
- Kristang: kobra
- Lower Sorbian: kobra
- Norwegian: kobra
- Polish: kobra
- Principense: kobo
- Romanian: cobră
- Russian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- Sãotomense: koblo
- Serbo-Croatian: kȍbra
- Slovak: kobra
- Spanish: cobra
- Swedish: kobra
- Turkish: kobra
- Ukrainian: ко́бра (kóbra)
Etymology 2
Verb
cobra
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cobrar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cobrar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkobɾa/, [ˈkoβɾa]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.
Noun
cobra f (plural cobras)
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
See cobrar.
Verb
cobra
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cobrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cobrar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of cobrar.
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔbra/
Noun
cobra m, f (plural cobraod)
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
- “cobra”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014
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