coobra

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ko.ˈɔ.bɾa/

Noun

coobra f

snake
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 368 (facsimile):
  
  [C]omo nos ſṫa M(aria) do porto guariu ũa moller dũa coobra que tragia eno uentre e avie ben tres años
  (H)ow Holy Mary of the port cured a woman of a snake she had in her belly for three years.

Descendants

Galician: cobra
Portuguese: cobra
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: kobra
- Indo-Portuguese: cóber
- Kabuverdianu: kóbra
- Korlai Creole Portuguese: kɔb
- Kristang: kobra
- Principense: kobo
- Sãotomense: koblo
- → Arabic: كُوبْرَا‎ (kubrā), كُوبْرَا‎ (kūbrā)
- → Belarusian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- → Bulgarian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- → Czech: kobra
- → Dutch: cobra
- → English: cobra
  - → Irish: cobra
  - → Japanese: コブラ (kobura)
  - → Korean: 코브라 (kobeura)
  - → Welsh: cobra
- → Esperanto: kobro
- → Finnish: kobra
- → German: Kobra
- → Greek: κόμπρα (kómpra)
- → Hindi: कोबरा (kobrā)
- → Hungarian: kobra
- → Ido: kobro
- → Italian: cobra
- → Lower Sorbian: kobra
- → Norwegian: kobra
- → Polish: kobra
- → Romanian: cobră
- → Russian: ко́бра (kóbra)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kȍbra
- → Slovak: kobra
- → Spanish: cobra
- → Swedish: kobra
- → Turkish: kobra
- → Ukrainian: ко́бра (kóbra)

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