cabra

See also: Cabra, cabrá, and cabrà

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin capra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/ [ˈka.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -abɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧bra

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (animal)

   Synonyms: teca, chiva

Further reading

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “cabra”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “cabra”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros. Compare Occitan cabra, French chèvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ˈka.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈka.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.bɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈka.βɾa]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Homophone: cabre

Noun

cabra f (plural cabres)

1. goat (mammal)
2. nanny goat (female goat)
3. goatskin
4. crab louse

   Synonyms: lladella, poll del pubis

5. European spider crab

   Synonyms: cabra del mar, cranca

6. (nautical) whitecap

Usage notes

• 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.

Derived terms

• cabra blanca (“mountain goat”)
• cabra dels Alps (“Alpine ibex”)
• cabra muntesa (“Iberian ibex”)
• cabra salvatge (“Iberian ibex”)
• cabrejar (“to form whitecaps”)
• cabrella (“little spider crab”)
• cabrellot (“great crested grebe”)
• cabró (“he-goat”)
• cabrot (“he-goat”)
• estar com una cabra (“to be mad/crazy”)

Related terms

• cabirol
• cabrafiga
• cabrer
• càbria
• cabrit

Further reading

• “cabra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cabra”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Anagrams

• barca

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cabra (“goat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/, [ˈka.bɾa]
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

Noun

cabra

1. (Caviteño, Cotabateño, Zamboangueño) goat

   Synonym: (Ternateño, Zamboangueño) kambing

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan cabra.

Noun

cabra (ORB, broad)

1. alternative form of chiévra (“goat”)

References

• cabra in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁa/
• Homophones: cabras, cabrât

Verb

cabra

1. third-person singular past historic of cabrer

Galician

Alternative forms

• craba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/ [ˈkɑ.β̞ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -abɾa
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• Cabra
• Cabrais
• Cabral
• Cabrariza
• Cabras
• Cabreira
• cabreiro
• Cabreiroá
• Cabreiros
• Cabrita
• Cabrois
• cabrón

References

• “cabra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “cabra”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cabra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cabra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabra”, 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), “cabra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bra/
• Rhymes: -abra
• Hyphenation: cà‧bra

Verb

cabra

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

Anagrams

• barca, braca

Occitan

Alternative forms

• chabra (Northern)
• craba (Gascony, Languedoc)

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabra, from Latin capra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabro/

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. (Languedoc) goat

Related terms

• cabrada
• cabraire, cabraira
• cabraudejar
• cabreta
• cabriboc
• cabrièr
• cabrit, cabrida

Descendants

• → Franco-Provençal: cabra

Portuguese

cabra

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾɐ/ [ˈka.βɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -abɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧bra

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabrão or bode, masculine plural cabrões or bodes)

1. she-goat; nanny goat (female goat)
2. (Azores, colloquial) a reckless girl
3. (vulgar, offensive, regional) bitch (despicable woman)

Derived terms

• cabra-de-leque
• cabrinha

Related terms

• cabrão
• cabreiro
• cabrito
• cabro
• Capricórnio
• capricórnio
• caprígeno
• caprino
• chèvre

Descendants

• → Old Tupi: kabará

See also

• bode

Etymology 2

Variant of cabrão.

Noun

cabra m (plural cabras)

1. (Northeast Brazil) guy, dude

Derived terms

• cabra macho

Further reading

• “cabra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cabra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabrer.

Verb

a cabra (third-person singular present cabrează, past participle cabrat) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive) to rear up (horse)

Conjugation

    conjugation of cabra (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a cabra
gerund			cabrând
past participle			cabrat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	cabrez	cabrezi	cabrează	cabrăm	cabrați	cabrează
	imperfect	cabram	cabrai	cabra	cabram	cabrați	cabrau
	simple perfect	cabrai	cabrași	cabră	cabrarăm	cabrarăți	cabrară
	pluperfect	cabrasem	cabraseși	cabrase	cabraserăm	cabraserăți	cabraseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să cabrez	să cabrezi	să cabreze	să cabrăm	să cabrați	să cabreze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		cabrează			cabrați
	negative		nu cabra			nu cabrați

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• capra, craba

Etymology

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

Noun

cabra f (plural cabras)

1. goat

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾa/ [ˈka.β̞ɾa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -abɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧bra

Noun

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

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

Usage notes

• While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the masculine 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.

Derived terms

• barba de cabra
• cabra de almizcle
• cabra del Tíbet
• cabracho
• cabrear
• cabrearse
• cabrilla
• cabrón
• camino de cabras
• chotacabras
• chupacabras
• como una cabra
• emborrachacabras
• estar más loco que una cabra
• la cabra siempre tira al monte
• pata de cabra
• pie de cabra

Related terms

• cabrahígo
• cabrero
• cabrita
• cabrito
• cabruno
• caprarius
• caprifoliáceo

See also

• chiva f
• chivo m

Further reading

• “cabra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• barca