carabina

Borrowed from French carabine.

carabina f (plural carabine)

1. (firearms) carbine, rifle

• carabiniere

• bancaria, baracani, rabicana

From French carabine.

carabīna f (genitive carabīnae); first declension

1. (New Latin) carbine

First-declension noun.

From French carabine (“carbine”), from carabin (“dragoon”), from regional escarrabin (“grave digger”), from Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”).

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧bi‧na

carabina f (plural carabinas)

1. carbine (short firearm)
2. rifle

   Synonyms: fuzil, espingarda, escopeta, rifle, refle

• carabinada

Borrowed from French carabine (“carbine”), from Old French carabin (“mounted rifleman”), perhaps from escarrabin (“corpse bearer during the plague”, literally “carrion beetle”), from scarabée (“dung beetle”), from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈbina/ [ka.ɾaˈβ̞i.na]

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ca‧ra‧bi‧na

carabina f (plural carabinas)

1. carbine (short firearm)
2. rifle

   Synonyms: rifle, fusil

3. chaperone

   Synonym: chaperón

• → Central Tarahumara: karabina

• “carabina”, 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
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN