Meanings
- NigeriaThe oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died.
Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.
2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN2 more examples
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 ...
1980, Umoja - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 23He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.
1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN
Origin
Borrowed from Igbo.
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