cobrar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), a back-formation from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Catalan recobrar. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing from Latin.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /koˈbɾa/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kuˈbɾa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koˈbɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

cobrar (first-person singular present cobro, past participle cobrat)

1. (transitive) to charge (money)
2. (transitive) to collect, receive (payment)
3. (transitive) to earn, be paid

• recobrar

• “cobrar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cobrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cobrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cobrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

• barroc, brocar, corbar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cobrar, from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), rebracketing from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Galician recobrar. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): [koˈβɾaɾ]

cobrar (first-person singular present cobro, first-person singular preterite cobrei, past participle cobrado)

1. (transitive, archaic) to recover, regain
2. (transitive, archaic) to earn, win
3. (transitive) to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)
4. (transitive) to collect, receive (payment)
5. (nautical, transitive) to haul

   Synonym: halar

6. (figuratively) to have what one's deserve (what goes around comes around)

   Para, nena, que vas cobrar! ― Stop it, child, or you'll have what you are asking for

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), a back-formation from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Old Portuguese recobrar.

• IPA^(key): /ko.ˈbɾaɾ/

cobrar

1. to recover; to regain
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 3 (facsimile):

     Eſta é de como ſanta maria fez cobrar a Theophilo a carta que fezera cono demo u ſe tornou ſeu vaſſalo.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary recovered for Theophilos the contract he had made with the Devil and became his vassal.

• Galician: cobrar
• Portuguese: cobrar

From Old Portuguese cobrar, from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), a back-formation from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Portuguese recobrar. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing from Latin.

• Hyphenation: co‧brar

cobrar (first-person singular present cobro, first-person singular preterite cobrei, past participle cobrado)

1. to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)
2. to demand payment
3. (by extension) to demand that something be done
4. (sports) to take

   Synonym: bater

5. inflection of cobrar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• (to demand): exigir, mandar

• http://www.aulete.com.br/cobrar
• https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/cobrar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), a back-formation from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Spanish recobrar. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing from Latin.

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• IPA^(key): /koˈbɾaɾ/ [koˈβ̞ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧brar

cobrar (first-person singular present cobro, first-person singular preterite cobré, past participle cobrado)

1. to charge (money, etc.)

   Me habéis cobrado dos veces.

   You've charged me twice.

2. to collect
3. to gather up (strength, bravery etc.)
4. to pay for something (get one's dues)
5. (reflexive) to claim (lives)

   El incendio se cobró tres vidas.

   The fire claimed three lives.

• cobrador
• recobrar

• → Tagalog: kubra

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