cabri

cabri (plural cabris)

1. A pronghorn.

• baric, Carib, biarc, carib, Carib., rabic

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ka.bri/
• Rhymes: -i
• Homophones: cabril, cabrils, cabris

Borrowed from Occitan cabrit (“(goat) kid”), from Vulgar Latin capritus (“billy goat”). Doublet of chevri.

cabri m (plural cabris)

1. kid (young goat)

   Synonyms: bouqueton m, bouquillon m, chevreau m, chevrette f, (rare) chevrelle f

2. (Louisiana) goat (of any age or sex)

   Coordinate term: bique f

   • 2010, Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, Dominique Ryon, editors, Dictionary of Louisiana French: as Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian communities, page 97:

     Le monde avait des cabris plus pour tiendre les herbes en bas.

     People kept goats mostly to keep the grass low.

• (dated or obsolete) cabril

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cabri m (plural cabris)

1. (Louisiana) navel, belly button

   Synonyms: bourrique f, nombril m

• “cabri”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

• Birac, Briac, carbi

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bri/
• Rhymes: -abri
• Hyphenation: cà‧bri

cabri

1. inflection of cabrare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• braci