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Spanish
Etymology
Distorted from Arabic بَطَّال (baṭṭāl) or another word from the root ب ط ل (b-ṭ-l), or maybe from بَتَرَ (batara, “to cut off”) in view of Salamancan baldorro (“beast that one culls for being old or sick”), baldorras and boldregas (“tattered”), Aragonese and Spanish baldrés (“tanned sheep hide”), Portuguese and Galician baldréu (“goat-hide for gloves; depraved person”), Canarian baladrón (“rascal”), Galician baladrón (“braggart”), Navarro-Aragonese baladreo (“frivolity, folly”), Galician baldreo (“dirty”), Portuguese boldrego (“filthy”), baldrejado (“filthy”), Portuguese baldroar (“to jest”), baldroca (“fraud”), baldroguerrio (“intrigant”), however Celtic and Romance explanations are given, note borrowed Latin balātrō (“jester”) and Latin balteus (“belt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /balˈdɾaɡas/
- Rhymes: -aɡas
- Syllabification: bal‧dra‧gas
Noun
baldragas m (plural baldragas)
- (informal) wimp
Descendants
Further reading
- “baldragas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “baldorras”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 239