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ara.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
ara.
Principal English Translation: 

(stone)altar

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ara de altar. lo mismo. vel. tlateochi-|ualli tetl. tlateochiualtetl (Molina 1992, I: 13r). =Stone altar, the same, or stone made divine, divine stone. [vocabulary (VM 2); time range: 1571]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 84.