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noun, feminine

arroba

/aˈroba/

noun, feminine/aˈroba/plural: arrobas

at (the symbol @); arroba (a traditional unit of mass generally equivalent to about 11.5 kg)

volcaba él solo una caldera de doce arrobas de plomo fundidoHe turned over a twelve-arroba cauldron of molten lead by himself

Inherited from Old Spanish arroua, from Arabic اَلرُّبْع (ar-rubʕ, “one-fourth”), in reference to its forming one fourth of a quintal.