copra

English

Etymology

From Portuguese copra, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”). Doublet of kapala.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒ.pɹə/

Noun

copra (countable and uncountable, plural copras)

  1. The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
    • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
      She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him.

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Anagrams

French

Noun

copra m (plural copras)

  1. Alternative spelling of coprah

Irish

Etymology

From English copra, from Portuguese, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”).

Noun

copra m (genitive singular copra)

  1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

Declension
Declension of copra

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative copra
Vocative a chopra
Genitive copra
Dative copra

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an copra
Genitive an chopra
Dative leis an gcopra

don chopra

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
copra chopra gcopra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Italian

Verb

copra

  1. inflection of coprire (“to cover; to heap”):
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra), from Sanskrit कपालः (kapālaḥ, “skull”).

Noun

copra f (plural copras)

  1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)
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