cabra

From Latin capra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/, [ˈka.β̞ɾa]

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (animal)

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾa/

• Audio (Valencian)

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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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cabra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• barca

Borrowed from Occitan cabra, from Latin capra. Doublet of inherited chiévra.

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat

   Synonym: chiévra

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

cabra

1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

• craba

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaβɾa̝/

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 de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cabra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cabra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cabra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• 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
• craba (Gascony, Languedoc)

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaβro]

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cabra f (plural cabras)

1. (Languedoc) goat

• Rhymes: -abɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

From Old Portuguese cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”). Compare Spanish and Catalan cabra, Italian capra, French chèvre and Romanian capră.

cabra f (plural cabras)

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

• cabrão

• bode

Variant of cabrão

cabra m (plural cabras)

1. (Northeast Brazil) guy, dude

From French cabrer.

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

1. (transitive) to rear up (horse)

• capra, craba

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

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. goat

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 male 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• barca