carabina

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French carabine.

Noun

carabina f (plural carabine)

1. (firearms) carbine, rifle

Derived terms

• carabiniere

Anagrams

• bancaria, baracani, rabicana

Latin

Etymology

From French carabine.

Noun

carabīna f (genitive carabīnae); first declension

1. (New Latin) carbine

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	carabīna	carabīnae
genitive	carabīnae	carabīnārum
dative	carabīnae	carabīnīs
accusative	carabīnam	carabīnās
ablative	carabīnā	carabīnīs
vocative	carabīna	carabīnae

Portuguese

Etymology

From French carabine (“carbine”), from carabin (“dragoon”), from regional escarrabin (“grave digger”), from Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈbĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈbĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈbi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈbi.nɐ/ [kɐ.ɾɐˈβi.nɐ]

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧bi‧na

Noun

carabina f (plural carabinas)

1. carbine (short firearm)
2. rifle

   Synonyms: fuzil, espingarda, escopeta, rifle, refle

Related terms

• carabinada

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French carabine (“carbine”), from Old French carabin (“mounted rifleman”), perhaps from escarrabin (“corpse bearer during the plague”, literally “carrion beetle”), from scarabée (“dung beetle”), from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈbina/ [ka.ɾaˈβ̞i.na]

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ca‧ra‧bi‧na

Noun

carabina f (plural carabinas)

1. carbine (short firearm)
2. rifle

   Synonyms: rifle, fusil

3. chaperone

   Synonym: chaperón

Derived terms

• carabina de Ambrosio
• carabinero

Descendants

• → Central Tarahumara: karabina

Further reading

• “carabina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN