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See also: Cabra, cabrá, and cabrà

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin capra.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

  1. goat (animal)

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  • 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

Etymology

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

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

  1. goat

References

  • cabra in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cabra

  1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

References

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cabra

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

Anagrams

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

  1. (Languedoc) goat

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Descendants

  • → Franco-Provençal: cabra

Portuguese

cabra

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -abɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧bra

Etymology 1

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

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

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

Variant of cabrão.

Noun

cabra m (plural cabras)

  1. (Northeast Brazil) guy, dude

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabrer.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) to rear up (horse)

Conjugation

    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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

  1. goat

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabɾa/
  • Rhymes: -abɾa
  • Syllabification: ca‧bra

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.

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