cobra

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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

cobra (plural cobras)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
   • 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.

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

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

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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cobra f (plural cobres)

1. cobra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

cobra

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

• “cobra”, 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
• “cobra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cobra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cobra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cobra”, 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), “cobra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cobra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cobra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

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 written in a single paragraph in a hand of paper and sewn with white linen thread and on the joints my name

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes)

   Synonyms: serpente, ofídio

2. (strictly, prescriptive) cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae)

   Synonym: elapídeo

3. (figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)
4. (Portugal, figurative) lassitude
5. (Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses
6. (Portugal, colloquial) drunkenness
7. (Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman
8. (figuratively, slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always feminine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “cobra-macho” for male, and “cobra-fêmea” for female. Here, macho is treated as an undeclinable noun and doesn't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to macha if so.

• Some biologists proscribe the use of cobra for all snakes, restricting its use to the family Elapidae as in English.

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 Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cobra”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “cobra”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cobra”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cobra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• 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^[1], archived from the original on 22 June 2019:

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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