copra

• coprah (archaic)

Borrowed from Portuguese copra, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra). Cognate with Tamil கொப்பரை (kopparai), Kuvi କବ୍ରି (kobri), Sanskrit कूर्पस (kūrpasa), Hindi खोपा (khopā).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.pɹə/

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copra (countable and uncountable, plural copras)

1. The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
   • 1993, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2018, page 188:

     The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.

   • 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.

• Carpo, Crapo, carpo-

copra m (plural copras)

1. alternative spelling of coprah

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

copra m (genitive singular copra)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “copra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “copra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “copra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

copra

1. inflection of coprire (“to cover; to heap”):
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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

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

• Hyphenation: co‧pra

copra f (plural copras)

1. copra (dried kernel of coconut)

• → English: copra, coprah (archaic)
• → French: coprah
• → Irish: copra

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