copra

English

Alternative forms

• coprah (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed 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, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him.

Translations

dried kernel of coconut

• Bikol Central: lukad (bcl)
• Bulgarian: копра f (kopra)
• Catalan: copra f
• Czech: kopra (cs) f
• Danish: kopra c
• Dutch: kopra (nl) m or f
• Finnish: kopra (fi)
• French: coprah (fr) m
• German: Kopra (de) f
• Greek: καρυδόψιχα (el) f (karydópsicha)
• Gujarati: કોપરું (koprũ)
• Hebrew: קופרה (he) f
• Hungarian: kopra (hu)
• Indonesian: kopra (id)
• Irish: copra m
• Italian: copra (it) f
• Japanese: コプラ (ja) (kopura)
• Konkani: khobrem (Goan Konkani)
• Lithuanian: kopra ?
• Malayalam: കൊപ്ര (ml) (kopra)
• Marathi: खोबरे n (khobre)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mbatra
• Norwegian: kopra m
• Persian: مغز نارگیل
• Polish: kopra (pl) f
• Portuguese: copra (pt) f
• Russian: ко́пра (ru) f (kópra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏пра f

  Roman: kȍpra (sh) f

• Spanish: copra (es) f
• Swahili: nguta
• Swedish: kopra (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalibkib, kopra
• Tamil: கொப்பரை (ta) (kopparai)
• Telugu: కొబ్బరి (te) (kobbari)
• Ukrainian: копра f (kopra)
• Waray-Waray: lugit

Anagrams

• Carpo, Crapo, carpo-

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “copra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “copra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “copra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

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

• -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, parco, parcò, porca

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.pɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: co‧pra

Noun

copra f (plural copras)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

Descendants

• → English: copra, coprah
• → French: coprah
• → Irish: copra