cabra

From Latin capra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/ [ˈka.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -abɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧bra

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (animal)

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈka.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.bɾa]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Homophone: cabre

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

• 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.

• “cabra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cabra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• barca

Borrowed from Occitan cabra.

cabra (ORB, broad)

1. alternative form of chiévra (“goat”)

• cabra in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁa/
• Homophones: cabras, cabrât

cabra

1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

• craba

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/ [ˈkɑ.β̞ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -abɾa
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

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)

• “cabra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “cabra” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cabra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

cabra

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

• barca, braca

• chabra (Northern)
• craba (Gascony, Languedoc)

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabro/

• Audio:

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cabra f (plural cabras)

1. (Languedoc) goat

• → Franco-Provençal: cabra

• Rhymes: -abɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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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.

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

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

• → Old Tupi: kabará

• bode

Variant of cabrão.

cabra m (plural cabras)

1. (Northeast Brazil) guy, dude

• cabra macho

Borrowed from French cabrer.

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

1. (transitive) to rear up (horse)

• capra, craba

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

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. goat

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/ [ˈka.β̞ɾa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -abɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧bra

cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabro, masculine plural cabros)

1. female goat
2. goat (unknown gender)
3. (colloquial, Chile) girl

• While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the masculine 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.

• chiva f
• chivo m

• “cabra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• barca