cobarde

Portuguese

Alternative forms

covarde

Etymology

Borrowed from French couard,[1][2] from Old French cuard.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈbaʁ.d͡ʒi/ [koˈbaɦ.d͡ʒi]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koˈbaɾ.d͡ʒi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koˈbaʁ.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈbaɻ.de/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈbaɾ.d(ɨ)/ [kuˈβaɾ.ð(ɨ)]

Hyphenation: co‧bar‧de

Adjective

cobarde m or f (plural cobardes)

(Brazil) Alternative form of covarde
(Portugal) cowardly

Noun

cobarde m or f by sense (plural cobardes)

(Brazil) Alternative form of covarde
(Portugal) coward

References

“cobarde” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
“cobarde” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Further reading

“cobarde” in iDicionário Aulete.
“cobarde” in Dicionário inFormal.
“cobarde” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
“cobarde” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French couard, from Old French cuard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koˈbaɾde/ [koˈβ̞aɾ.ð̞e]
Audio (Colombia) (file)
Rhymes: -aɾde
Syllabification: co‧bar‧de

Adjective

cobarde (plural cobardes)

cowardly, craven, gutless, spineless, dastardly
yellow (easily frightened)

Derived terms

Noun

cobarde m or f (plural cobardes)

coward, chicken, wimp, poltroon
weakling, wuss

Further reading

“cobarde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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