Ora means "cheaper then Ordu" hope this help!

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Formely stef32

Pretty sure "Orbea" means "Trek".

I don't think 'Orbea' is Basque per se. There is a genus of plants in the milkweed family called Orbea. They have stinky, fly-pollinated flowers.

Orbea have unusual five-lobed flowers, generally with a raised ring or annulus around the centre. This ring (Latin: ring=orbis) accounts for the name of the genus.
From: http://succulent-plant.com/...piadaceae/orbea.html

I'm also going to take a wild guess that Ora means hour.

Orbea (and Escutia) I am sure, is a Basque last name.

My guess on "Ora" is that it means "to hold" or "to grab".

Sergio

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Note: English is not my first language. Please read this translated post considering that.

Yes, Orbea is a Basque last name. Derived from orbe, meaning "plot", "ground", "lot" (the latter in its Am Eng sense), so orbea means "the plot", "the ground", "the lot".

And for what it's worth, or means "dog" in some of the Northern dialects of Basque (the usual word for dog is txakur or zakur), so ora means "the dog". I doubt it has anything to do with the bike name.

Ordu means "hour", and only means time in the sense of "what time is it?" (Zer ordu da?), etc.

I like this one.

From Wikipedia:
The Komodo dragon is also known as the Komodo monitor or the Komodo Island monitor in scientific literature, although this is not very common.[1] To the natives of Komodo Island, it is referred to as ora, buaya darat ("land crocodile") or biawak raksasa ("giant monitor").[

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"Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn." - Charles De Mar

I think Orbea is the name of brothers that started the company back in 1800's when they made steel tubing and firearms.

That´s right.

There...I fixed your post for you ;-)

BTW, "ora" in Spanish means "now".

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This is what they did before turning to a bike company : http://republicanos.bravehost.com/orbea.html

"ahora" means now. A friend told me that Ora and Ordu are Basque, I think I remember one of them meaning or having something to do with the word "time"? Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, Wikipedia says Ordu means "army" in Turkish, so that's kinda neat.

See my reply above, which you can verify in any good Basque-English dictionary (e.g., Gorka Aulestia, Basque-English Dictionary, Univ of Nevada Press). But you are right that ahora is the correct Spanish word for "now".