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arroba

arroba noun: a traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.

Noun

arroba (plural arrobas)

  1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
  2. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 14.7 kilograms.
  3. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of liquid measure, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 15 liters.

Forms of arroba

pluralarrobas

Origin of arroba

From Spanish and Portuguese arroba, from Old Spanish arroua and Old Galician-Portuguese arrova, from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic اَلرُّبْع (ar-rubʕ, “one-fourth”) in reference to its making up one fourth of a quintal.

Questions about arroba

What does arroba mean?
Arroba means a traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
What part of speech is arroba?
Arroba is a noun.
What is the plural of arroba?
The plural of arroba is arrobas.

Words near arroba in the dictionary

  1. arrière-pensées
  2. arrière-voussure
  3. arrière-voussures
  4. arrièrepensée
  5. arrières-pensées
  6. arroba
  7. arrobas
  8. arroces
  9. Arrochar
  10. arroded
  11. arrogance

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