arca de Noé

See also: Arca de Noé

Spanish

Proper noun

arca de Noé f

Noah's ark

Usage notes

Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
el arca de Noé, un arca de Noé
They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Further reading

“arca de Noé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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