# cobra
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“female snake”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊbɹə/, /ˈkɒbɹə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkoʊbɹə/
* Rhymes: -əʊbɹə, -ɒbɹə, -oʊbɹə

### Noun

cobra (plural cobras)
* Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.
* A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

#### Hyponyms

* Asian cobra, Indian cobra, spectacled cobra
* Cape cobra, yellow cobra
* cobra capella, cobra de capello
* Egyptian cobra
* Equatorial spitting cobra
* king cobra
* monocled cobra
* Philippine cobra
* Pugachev's Cobra
* snake-eating cobra
* snouted cobra
* spitting cobra

#### Derived terms

* cobra chicken
* cobra effect
* cobralike
* cobra lily
* cobra maneuver
* cobra pose
* cobra roll
* cobratoxin
* cobric

#### Translations

Arabic: كُوبْرَا f (kubrā), كُوبْرَا f (kūbrā), بَزَّاقَة ? (bazzāqa)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Assamese: ফেঁটী সাপ (phẽti xap)
Atayal: kbibing
Azerbaijani: gözlüklü ilan
Belarusian: ко́бра f (kóbra)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: ко́бра (bg) f (kóbra)
Burmese: မြွေဟောက် (my) (mrwehauk)
Catalan: cobra (ca) f
Cherokee: ᏆᎾᏓᏲᎭ (quanadayoha)
Cheyenne: a'kêstséašé'šenovôtse
Chinese:
Mandarin: 眼鏡蛇 / 眼镜蛇 (zh) (yǎnjìngshé)
Czech: kobra (cs) f
Danish: kobra c
Dutch: cobra (nl) f, brilslang (nl) f
Egyptian: (ḏt)
Esperanto: kobro
Finnish: kobra (fi), silmälasikäärme (fi)
French: naja (fr) m, cobra (fr) m
Galician: cobra (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Kobra (de) f
Greek: κόμπρα (el) f (kómpra)
Hebrew: פֶּתֶן m (peṯen)
Hindi: कोबरा ? (kobrā), भुजंग (hi) m (bhujaṅg), काला (hi) m (kālā) (colloquial)
Hungarian: kobra (hu)
Ido: kobro (io)
Indonesian: kobra (id), tedung (id)
Irish: cobra m
Italian: cobra (it) m
Japanese: コブラ (ja) (kobura), 眼鏡蛇 (ja) (meganehebi)
Khmer: ពស់វែក (pŭəhvɛɛk)
Korean: 코브라 (ko) (kobeura)
Malay: tedung
Malayalam: മൂർഖൻ (ml) (mūṟkhaṉ)
Maori: kaupara
Marathi: भुजंग m (bhujaṅga), नाग m (nāg), नागोबा m (nāgobā)
Mon: ဇြုံဇာတ် (mnw)
Mongolian: наж могой (naž mogoj)
Navajo: tłʼiish bikʼós niteelígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kobra m
Nynorsk: kobra m
Pali: kaṇhagotamaka m, nāga m, ahivisa n
Polish: kobra (pl) f
Portuguese: cobra-capelo (pt) f, naja (pt) f
Punjabi: ਨਾਗ m (nāg)
Rohingya: zouñraáff
Romanian: cobră (ro) f, cobra f
Russian: ко́бра (ru) f (kóbra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̏бра f
Roman: kȍbra (sh) f
Slovak: kobra f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kobra f
Spanish: cobra (es) f
Swedish: kobra (sv) c, glasögonorm (sv) c
Tagalog: ulupong
Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam), நாகப்பாம்பு (ta) (nākappāmpu)
Telugu: నాగుపాము (te) (nāgupāmu)
Thai: งูเห่า (th) (nguu hào)
Turkish: kobra (tr), gözlüklü yılan (tr)
Ukrainian: ко́бра (uk) f (kóbra)
Vietnamese: rắn hổ mang (vi), hổ mang (vi)
Welsh: cobra m or f
Wolof: saamaan mi
Yoruba: ejo ṣebe :

### Anagrams

* Barco, CORBA, Carbo, carbo, carbo-, carob, coarb

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkɔ.βɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈkɔ.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.bɾa]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of colobra.

#### Noun

cobra f (plural cobres)
* cobra

##### Derived terms

* cobra d'ulleres
* cobra escopidora
* cobra reial

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cobra
* inflection of cobrar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cobra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoː.braː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: co‧bra

### Noun

cobra f (plural cobra's, diminutive cobraatje n)
* cobra (venomous snake from certain genera of the family Elapidae, especially of the genus Naja)
* (especially) Indian cobra (Naja naja)
    Synonyms: brilslang, gewone cobra, Indiase cobra

#### Derived terms

* cobralelie
* gewone cobra
* Indiase cobra
* koningscobra

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: kobra

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.bʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cobra m (plural cobras)
* cobra (snake)
    Synonym: naja

### Further reading

* “cobra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese coobra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin.

#### Alternative forms

* cóbrega, quiobra

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

#### Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)
* snake
    Synonym: serpe
* cobra

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔβɾa̝/

#### Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)
* (historical) stanze
    Synonym: copla
* (archaic) paragraph

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

cobra
* inflection of cobrar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cobra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cobra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Irish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake, serpent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔbˠɾˠə/

### Noun

cobra m (genitive singular cobra, nominative plural cobraí)
* cobra

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
cobra
cobraí
vocative
a chobra
a chobraí
genitive
cobra
cobraí
dative
cobra
cobraí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an cobra
na cobraí
genitive
an chobra
na gcobraí
dative
leis an gcobra don chobra
leis na cobraí :

#### Derived terms

* rí-chobra (“king cobra”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cobra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* “cobra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cobra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber (“snake, serpent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.bra/
* Rhymes: -ɔbra
* Hyphenation: cò‧bra

### Noun

cobra m (invariable)
* cobra

#### Derived terms

* cobra dagli occhiali
* cobra egiziano
* cobralisina
* cobraterapia
* cobratossina

### Further reading

* cobra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* braco, cabro, cabrò, carbo-, corba

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin cōpula.

### Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)
* estrofe
* paragraph
** 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega:vay todo escripto en hua cobra et man de papel et cosido con fio branco de linno et ennas juntas meu nomeall written in a single paragraph in a hand of paper and sewn with white linen thread and on the joints my name

### Further reading

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cobra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cobra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Universo Cantigas - "cobra"

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.bɾɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.bɾɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.bɾa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɔ.bɾɐ/ [ˈkɔ.βɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔbɾɐ
* Hyphenation: co‧bra

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.

#### Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)
* snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes)
    Synonyms: serpente, ofídio
* (strictly, prescriptive) cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae)
    Synonym: elapídeo
* (figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)
* (Portugal, figurative) lassitude
* (Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses
* (Portugal, colloquial) drunkenness
* (Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman
* (figuratively, slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

##### Usage notes

* The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always feminine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “cobra macho” for male, and “cobra fêmea” for female. Here, macho is treated as an undeclinable noun and don't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to macha if so.
* Some biologists proscribe the use of cobra for all snakes, restricting its use to the family Elapidae as in English.

##### Derived terms

* a cobra vai fumar
* andar como cobra quando perde a peçonha
* banha da cobra
* cágado-pescoço-de-cobra
* cipó-de-cobra
* cipó-mata-cobras
* cobra criada
* cobra que não anda, não engole sapo
* cobra-capelo
* cobra-coral
* cobra-cuspidora
* cobra-d'água
* cobra-de-água-de-colar
* cobra-de-capelo
* cobra-de-escada
* cobra-de-vidro
* cobra-lisa-austríaca
* cobra-real
* cobrinha
* Deus não dá asas à cobra
* dizer cobras e lagartos
* engolir cobra
* ficar cobra
* matar a cobra e mostrar o pau
* ninho de cobra
* ser mais fácil uma cobra fumar do que
* ser mau como as cobras

##### Related terms

* cobreiro
* cobrejar
* cobrelo
* ofídico

##### Descendants

* 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)

#### Noun

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobras)
* (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert

#### Adjective

cobra m or f (plural cobras)
* (Brazil, dated, colloquial) pro, expert

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)
* Alternative form of copla

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cobra
* inflection of cobrar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cobra”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “cobra”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “cobra”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “cobra”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “cobra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkobɾa/ [ˈko.β̞ɾa]
* Rhymes: -obɾa
* Syllabification: co‧bra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“snake”). Doublet of culebra.

#### Noun

cobra f (plural cobras)
* cobra
* the act of hacer la cobra
** 2016 November 11, “El vídeo que desmonta la ‘cobra’ de Bisbal a Chenoa”, in El Español‎:

##### Derived terms

* cobra india
* cobra real
* hacer la cobra

##### Related terms

* culebra

##### See also

* mordida
* reptil
* serpiente
* veneno

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cobra
* inflection of cobrar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cobra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cobra, from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔbra/

### Noun

cobra m or f by sense (plural cobraod)
* cobra

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cobra”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies