Etymology

matraca

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Today it means: A type of wooden rattle from Latin America. Full definition →

Spanish matraca ← Arabic مَطْرَق
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  1. Arabic · derived fromمَطْرَق
  2. Spanish · borrowed frommatraca
  3. English todaymatraca

From Spanish matraca, from dialectal Arabic مَطْرَق (maṭraq). See Aramaic מטרקא (mṭrqʾ) for more.

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