cobrar
Meaning
- (transitive) to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)
- (transitive) to demand payment
- (broadly, transitive) to demand that something be done
- (transitive) to take
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈbɾa(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cobrar, from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), a back-formation from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Portuguese recobrar. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing from Latin.
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