andrajo
Spanish
Etymology
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).
Noun
andrajo m (plural andrajos)
- rags (as clothes)
Derived terms
References
- 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.
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