andrajo

rags (as clothes)

Hyphenated as

an‧dra‧jo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/anˈdɾaxo/

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).

Concepts

rag

tatter

patch

cloth

rags

scallywag

shred

Synonyms

harapo

trapo

andrajos

guiñapo

remiendo

arapo

tela vieja

véase: "chiro" tatters

chanchiro

harrapo

Translations

straccio

Lumpen

cencio

Lappen

haillon

guenille

lobo

κουρέλι

andrajo

Flicken

brandello

loque

parrac

παλιόρουχο

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