copra

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese copra, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”). Doublet of kapala.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒ.pɹə/
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Noun

copra (countable and uncountable, plural copras)

  1. The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
    • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
      She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him.

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French

Noun

copra m (plural copras)

  1. Alternative spelling of coprah

Irish

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Etymology

From English copra, from Portuguese, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”).

Noun

copra m (genitive singular copra)

  1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

Declension

Declension of copra (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative copra
vocative a chopra
genitive copra
dative copra
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an copra
genitive an chopra
dative leis an gcopra
don chopra

Mutation

Mutated forms of copra
radical lenition eclipsis
copra chopra gcopra

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Italian

Verb

copra

  1. inflection of coprire (“to cover; to heap”):
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: co‧pra

Noun

copra f (plural copras)

  1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

Descendants

  • → English: copra, coprah (archaic)
  • → French: coprah
  • → Irish: copra
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