cobra

English

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cobra

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊbɹə/
• Rhymes: -əʊbɹə, -ɒbɹə, -oʊbɹə

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cobra de capello (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• Barco, CORBA, Carbo, carbo, carbo-, carob, coarb

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cobra f (plural cobres)

1. cobra

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cobra

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

Further reading

• “cobra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.braː/

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• Hyphenation: co‧bra

Noun

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kobra

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.bʁa/

• Audio

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Noun

cobra m (plural cobras)

1. cobra (snake)

   Synonym: naja

Further reading

• “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

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

• cóbrega, quiobra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. snake

   Synonym: serpe

2. cobra

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. (historical) stanze

   Synonym: copla

2. (archaic) paragraph

Etymology 3

Verb

cobra

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

References

• “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

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)

1. cobra

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cobra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “cobra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Entries containing “cobra” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.bra/
• Rhymes: -ɔbra
• Hyphenation: cò‧bra

Noun

cobra m (invariable)

1. cobra

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• braco, cabro, cabrò, carbo-, corba

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cōpula.

Noun

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

• “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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

cobra

Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔbɾɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧bra

Etymology 1

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

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

• 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.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobras)

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

Adjective

cobra m or f (plural cobras)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. Alternative form of copla

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cobra

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

Further reading

• “cobra” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “cobra” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “cobra” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “cobra” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cobra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkobɾa/
• Rhymes: -obɾa
• Syllabification: co‧bra

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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:

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cobra

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

Further reading

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

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔbra/

Noun

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobraod)

1. cobra

Mutation

References

• 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