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oración.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
oración.
Principal English Translation: 

song, oration at a funeral
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

nahui tomin orancio nopan mitoz yn otlica (Coyoacan, 1588)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 2.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhuan oracion yhuan azo centetl misa nopan yc mitoz = oracion e una misa que se diga por mi (Ciudad de México, 1583)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 175.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance