cabra

From Latin capra.

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (animal)

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾa/

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (mammal)

The term cabra can be used of a goat in general or of an adult female goat. An adult male goat is either the related term cabró or boc.

• cabrot m (“male goat”)
• estar com una cabra (to be like a goat) = to be mad, crazy

• cabrit
• cabró
• cabrer
• cabirol

Borrowed from Occitan cabra, from Latin capra. Doublet of inherited chiévra.

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat

• chiévra

• IPA^(key): /kab.ʁa/
• Homophones: cabras, cabrât

cabra

1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

• craba

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cabra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cabra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaβɾa̝/

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. goat

   Synonym: cabuxa

2. blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus)
3. (in the plural) stains in the legs caused by excessive heat
4. gaper, comber (Serranus cabrilla)

• “cabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cabra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cabra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cabra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cabra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

cabra

1. inflection of cabrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• barca
• braca

• chabra
• craba

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaβro]

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. (Languedoc) goat

From Old Portuguese cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”). Compare Spanish cabra, Catalan cabra, Italian capra, French chèvre and Romanian capră.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.βɾɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. she-goat; nanny goat (female goat)
2. (vulgar, offensive) bitch (despicable woman)

• cabrão

• cabreiro
• cabrito

• bode

From Old Spanish cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabro, masculine plural cabros)

1. female goat
2. goat (unknown gender)
3. (colloquial, Chile) girl

While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the male is used when the gender is unknown, the words for goat descending from the Latin capra are an exception, with the feminine form used for goats of indeterminate gender.

• cabrear
• cabrearse
• cabrilla
• cabrón
• chupacabras
• la cabra siempre tira al monte

• chiva f
• chivo m