dobro

From the trade name "Dobro", used by Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, name of the inventors + brothers, also punning on Slovak dobro (“good”).

dobro (plural dobros)

1. (music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator

   Synonym: resonator guitar

   • 2007 January 21, Nate Chinen, “Dueling Banjos, Gospel Harmonies, Arabesques and Electric Eels”, in New York Times‎:

     The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.

• boord, brood, droob

Inherited from Old Czech dobro, from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdobro]

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• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dobro n (related adjective dobrý)

1. good

   Antonym: zlo

• dobro in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• dobro in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• dobro in Internetová jazyková příručka

dobro

1. first-person singular present indicative of dobrar

From Serbo-Croatian dobar, добар, from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ (“good”).

dobro (feminine dobra, masculine plural dobros, feminine plural dobras)

1. (Balkan) good

   Synonym: bueno

Inherited from Old Polish dobro. By surface analysis, dobry +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔb.rɔ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.brɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔbrɔ
• Syllabification: dob‧ro

dobro n

1. (singular only) good, goodness

   Antonym: zło

2. (usually in plural) a good (something of economic value)
3. (plural only) estate, landed property

dobro (comparative lepiej, superlative najlepiej)

1. (Middle Polish) Synonym of dobrze

• dobro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dobro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese dobro, from Latin dūplus. Compare the borrowed doublet duplo.

• Hyphenation: do‧bro

dobro m (plural dobros)

1. double

• dobrar
• dobre
• dobrador
• dobragem
• duplo
• dupla
• dublar
• dublagem

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: do‧bro

dobro

1. first-person singular present indicative of dobrar

• IPA^(key): /dǒbro/
• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dòbro m (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. Name of the letter <d> in the Glagolitic alphabet.

From dȍbar.

• IPA^(key): /dǒbro/
• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dòbro n (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. good (forces or behaviours that are the opposite to bad or evil)
2. good, goods (an item of merchandise)
3. property, estate
4. well-being, welfare, sake

dòbro (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. well (in a good manner)

   Iako se trudio, nikad nije naučio dobro voziti.

   Although he tried, he never learned to drive well.

2. properly, rightly (in a proper manner)

dobro (Cyrillic spelling добро)

1. well

   Uh... pa dobro onda. ― Uh... well then.

2. all right, so be it, OK, fine

   Ne želiš da ti pomognem? Dobro, neću! ― You don't want me to help you? All right, I won't!

From English dobro, in turn from Slovak dobro.

• IPA^(key): /dǒbro/
• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dòbro m (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. dobro (acoustic guitar)

• “dobro” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “dobro” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “dobro” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “dobro” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.bro/

From the adjective dobrý.

dobro n (genitive singular dobra, nominative plural dobrá, genitive plural dobier, declension pattern of mesto)

1. good

dobro n (genitive singular dobra, nominative plural dobrá, genitive plural dobier, declension pattern of mesto)

1. dobro

• “dobro”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̀ːbrɔ/

dóbro (comparative bọ̑lje or bọ̑ljše, superlative nȁjbọ̑lje or nȁjbọ̑ljše)

1. well, good

   Antonym: slabọ̑

• predóbro

• “dobro”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• IPA^(key): /ˈdobɾo/ [ˈd̪o.β̞ɾo]
• Rhymes: -obɾo
• Syllabification: do‧bro

dobro m (plural dobros)

1. dobro

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