cobra

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

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

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

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.

• cobra de capello (etymologically unrelated)

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɔ.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔ.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkɔ.bɾa]

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

cobra f (plural cobres)

1. cobra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cobra

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.braː/

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• Hyphenation: co‧bra

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

• → Indonesian: kobra

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.bʁa/

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cobra m (plural cobras)

1. cobra (snake)

   Synonym: naja

• “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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.

• cóbrega, quiobra

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. snake

   Synonym: serpe

2. cobra

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. (historical) stanze

   Synonym: copla

2. (archaic) paragraph

cobra

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

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔbˠɾˠə/

cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)

1. cobra

• 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.

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

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

cobra m (invariable)

1. cobra

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

• braco, cabro, cabrò, carbo-, corba

From Latin cōpula.

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

• “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"

• Rhymes: -ɔbɾɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧bra

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.

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

• 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.

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobras)

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

cobra m or f (plural cobras)

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

cobra f (plural cobras)

1. Alternative form of copla

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cobra

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

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkobɾa/ [ˈko.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -obɾa
• Syllabification: co‧bra

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

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:

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cobra

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔbra/

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobraod)

1. cobra

• 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