cobra

• n. （コブラの）コブラ；（アウスの）頭
• n. （コブラ）人の名前；（西）コフラ；（仏、伊、ポルトガル）コブラ

ラテン語のcolubra（蛇）から。

cobra

cobra: [19] Cobra is a shortening of Portuguese cobra de capella, which came into English in India in the 17th century. This meant literally ‘snake with a hood’: cobra from Latin colubra ‘snake’ and capella (referring of course to the ‘hood’ it makes when agitated, by spreading out the skin at the side of its head) from Vulgar Latin *cappellus ‘little cape’, from late Latin cappa ‘hood’.
=> cap, cape, chapel, chaperon

cobra (n.)

1802, short for cobra capello (1670s), from Portuguese cobra de capello "serpent (of the hood)," from Latin colubra "a snake, female serpent" (source of French couleuvre "adder"), which is of uncertain origin. So called for the expandable loose skin about its neck. The word came to English via Portuguese colonies in India, where the native name is nag (see naga).

1. The cobra sankits venomous fangs into his hand.

コブラは彼をひどく噛んで、毒牙が彼の手の皮膚に刺さった。

2.She shrieked at the sight of the cobra .

彼女はコブラを見ると悲鳴を上げた。

3.The cobra was growing weaker and weaker.In a few more moments it would be dead.

そのコブラはますます弱ってきて、もう少しで命がなくなる。

4.This cobra is not actually hypnotized by the snake-charmer 's music.

このコブラは魔術師の音楽によって本当に催眠されたわけではない。

5.This red-spitting cobra projects venom towards its attacker 's eyes.

この赤い唾液コブラは攻撃者の目に毒液を吐いた。