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cobrar.

to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/koˈbɾa(ʁ)/Brazil[koˈbɾa(h)]Brazil/koˈbɾa(ɾ)/São-Paulo/koˈbɾa(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)

    transitive
  2. to demand payment

    transitive
  3. to demand that something be done

    broadly · transitive
  4. to take

    transitive
    cobrar falta
Where this word comes from

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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