noun, feminine/kaɾaˈbina/plural: carabinas
carabina is feminine in Spanish.
carbine (short firearm); rifle; chaperone
Synonyms: rifle, fusil, chaperón
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”).