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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θoˈθobɾa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /soˈsobɾa/
- Rhymes: -obɾa
- Syllabification: zo‧zo‧bra
Etymology 1
Deverbal from zozobrar, or borrowed from Old Catalan sotsobre, from sots + sobre; cf. modern Catalan sotsobrar (“to capsize”).
Noun
zozobra f (plural zozobras)
- capsizing
- roll of the dice, throw of the dice
- anxiety; worry
- Synonyms: ansiedad, preocupación
2020 June 28, Rosa Montero, “Más brutos y no nacemos”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN:En la zozobra de la plaga, la gente más débil no soporta la evidencia de nuestra absoluta fragilidad: una birria de virus que ni siquiera alcanzamos a ver es capaz de tumbarnos.- In the anxiety of the plague, the weakest people cannot bear the proof of our complete fragility: a virus that we cannot even see is capable of taking us down.
2023 May 16, Arnaldo Otegi, quotee, “Los siete exetarras de las listas de Bildu con delitos de sangre renuncian a ser concejales”, in El País:Otegi reafirma la apuesta “por vías exclusivamente pacíficas y democráticas” y dice: “Debemos avanzar hacia el futuro y no generar zozobra”- Otegi reaffirms the commitment "only through peaceful and democratic ways" and says: "We must move towards the future and not generate anxiety'
Etymology 2
Verb
zozobra
- inflection of zozobrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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