Noun: obra
Gender: f
Hyphenation: o‧bra
| Singular f | obra |
| Plural f | obras |
Sample Sentences
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obra de arte (work of art)
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obra literaria (literary work)
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El murciélago es obra del Diablo, el cual lo hizo en competencia con Dios, cuando éste formó la golondrina. [1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 258:]
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carretera en obras (road under construction)
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Hay obras. (There's construction going on.)
Nouns inflected like obra
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
From Old Spanish obra, inherited from Latin opera, from opus. The original form in Old Spanish was huebra, which was later influenced by the verb obrar and generalized to obra. Doublet of ópera. See: Latin Nouns '
opera', Latin Nouns '
opera'.
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