barajar

Inherited from Old Spanish barajar (“to quarrel”), from Late Latin baraliare (“dispute, quarrel”), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate with Portuguese baralhar and Catalan barallar.

• IPA^(key): /baɾaˈxaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧ra‧jar

barajar (first-person singular present barajo, first-person singular preterite barajé, past participle barajado)

1. (transitive) to shuffle (to put in random order)

   Synonym: barajear

2. to consider, to weigh up
   • 2022 July 14, José Naranjo, “La subida de precios dispara las protestas en África”, in El País‎:

     Partidos políticos, grupos de la sociedad civil y organizaciones de transporte han pedido urgentemente al Gobierno medidas para aliviar esta presión, mientras comienza a barajarse la idea de una huelga nacional.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (archaic) to quarrel

   Synonyms: reñir, altercar

4. (transitive, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Venezuela) to explain (something) again to someone

• “barajar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “barajar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010