zozobra

See also: zozobrá

Spanish

Etymology

From zozobrar, or borrowed from Old Catalan sotsobre, from sots + sobre; cf. sotsobrar.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /θoˈθobɾa/ [θoˈθo.β̞ɾa]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /soˈsobɾa/ [soˈso.β̞ɾa]
Rhymes: -obɾa
Syllabification: zo‧zo‧bra

Noun

zozobra f (plural zozobras)

anxiety; worry
- 2020 June 28, Rosa Montero, “Más brutos y no nacemos”, in El País‎, Madrid, ISSN 1134-6582:
  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.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

Verb

zozobra

inflection of zozobrar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

“zozobra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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