andrajo
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish andrajo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: an‧dra‧jo
Noun edit
andrajo m (plural andrajos)
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Federico Corriente considers the Andalusian Arabic حَطْرَجْ (ḥaṭraj, “foolish”) that appears in Vocabulista in Arabico and that comes from the known root ه ت ر (h-t-r) (the same as مُهْتَر (muhtar, “disordered in his intellect”) in Lane’s lexicon).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
andrajo m (plural andrajos)
- rags (as clothes)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Federico CORRIENTE; reflejos iberorromances del andalusí {ḥṭr}; in Al-Andalus Magreb nº 01 (1993).
- “هتر” in Edward William LANE; Arabic-English Lexicon; Williams & Norgate: London: 1863.
Further reading edit
- “andrajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014