copra

• coprah (archaic)

Borrowed from Portuguese copra, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra). Cognate with Tamil கொப்பரை (kopparai), Kuvi କବ୍ରି (kobri), Sanskrit कूर्पस (kūrpasa), Hindi खोपा (khopā).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.pɹə/

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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.

• Carpo, Crapo, carpo-

copra m (plural copras)

1. alternative spelling of coprah

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

copra m (genitive singular copra)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “copra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “copra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “copra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

copra

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

• -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, parco, parcò, porca

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

• Hyphenation: co‧pra

copra f (plural copras)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

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