Noun: carabina
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧bi‧na
| Singular f | carabina |
| Plural f | carabinas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like carabina
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: French Nouns '
carabine', Latin Nouns '
scarabaeus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κάραβος'.
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