opara

See also: Opara

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Igbo

Noun

opara (plural opara)

1. (Nigeria) The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died.
   • 1980, Umoja - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 23:

     Since the opara was the rightful successor to his father, and more or less inherited his father's political and religious functions upon his death, sending him to school, where he became ipso facto a Christian convert, meant that when his ...

   • 1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN:

     He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.

   • 2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN:

     Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.

Anagrams

• aropa