couve
See also: couvé
French
Pronunciation
Verb
couve
- inflection of couver:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese couve, from earlier *coue, from Latin caulem (“stem of a cabbage”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”). Doublet of caule.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko(w).vi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).vi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko(w).ve/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).ve]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈko(w).vɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkow.bɨ/ [ˈkow.βɨ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈko.vɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ovi, -owvi, (Portugal) -ovɨ, -owvɨ
- Hyphenation: cou‧ve
Noun
couve f (plural couves)
- several leaf vegetables, from the family Brassica oleracea
- kale (plant)
- cabbage (plant)
- Synonym: repolho
- collard greens (plant)
- Synonym: couve-galega
- couves (small truck on horse or rope hauled railway)
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- couval
- couve-brócolo
- couve-cavalar
- couve-crespa
- couve-de-bruxelas
- couve-de-saboia
- couve-flor
- couve-frisada
- couve-galega
- couve-lombarda
- couve-nabo
- couve-portuguesa
- couve-rábano
- couve-repolho
- couve-repolho-branco
- couve-repolhuda
- couve-roxa
- couve-tronchuda
Related terms
Descendants
- → Gujarati: કોબી (kobī), (from the plural) કોબીજ (kobīj)
- → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)
- → Konkani: कोब (kob)
- → Malay: kubis, kobis
- Indonesian: kubis
- → Marathi: कोबी (kobī)
- → Middle Bengali: *কবি (*kbi)
- → Sindhi:
- Arabic script: گوبيِ (kobī)
- Devanagari script: कोबी (kobī)
- → Tetum: kouve
Further reading
- “couve”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “couve”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025