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A dobro style guitar with metal resonator.

From the trade name Dobro, used by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, the name of the inventors + brothers, and also a pun 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[1]:
      The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.

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

dobro n (relational adjective dobrý)

  1. good
    Antonym: zlo

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.

dobro n

  1. (uncountable) good, goodness (state or characteristic of being good)
    Antonym: zło
  2. (countable, literary, chiefly in the plural) good (that which is produced, traded, bought, or sold)
  3. (in the plural) estate (landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government)

dobro (comparative lepiej, superlative najlepiej)

  1. (Middle Polish) synonym of dobrze

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dobro, from Latin dūplus. Doublet of duplo, a learned borrowing.

dobro m (plural dobros)

  1. double
Coeficiente Substantivo Resultado
1 únicosingular
2 dobro duplapardueto
3 triplo triotrincatercetotríadetrindade
4 quádruplo quarteto
5 quíntuplo quinteto
6 sêxtuplo sexteto
7 sétuploséptuplo septeto
8 óctuplo octeto
9 nônuplo (Brazil)nónuplo (Portugal) nonetonovena
10 décuplo dezena
11 undécuplo onzenaonzeno
12 duodécuplo dúzia
100 cêntuplo centena
muitos múltiplo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dobro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dobrar

dòbro m inan (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

  1. Name of the letter in the Glagolitic alphabet.

From dȍbar.

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!

Borrowed from English dobro, in turn from Slovak dobro.

dòbro m inan (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

  1. dobro (acoustic guitar)

From the adjective dobrý.

dobro n

  1. good

dobro n

  1. dobro

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

  1. well, good
    Antonym: slabọ̑

dobro m (plural dobros)

  1. dobro