baraja

• IPA^(key): /baˈɾaxa/ [baˈɾa.xa]
  • Rhymes: -axa
• IPA^(key): /baˈɾaʃa/ [baˈɾa.ʃa] (Early Modern Spanish)
  • Rhymes: -aʃa
• Syllabification: ba‧ra‧ja

Deverbal from barajar.

baraja f (plural barajas)

1. deck (of cards)
2. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) quarrel

   Synonym: riña

• → Cebuano: baraha
• → Hiligaynon: baraha
• → Pangasinan: baraha
• → Tagalog: baraha, balasa

• romper la baraja

baraja

1. inflection of barajar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “baraja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Old Sundanese bajra (“thunderbolt, a kind of weapon”) via metathesis and epenthesis, from Sanskrit वज्र (vajra, “thunderbolt”). Doublet of bajra.

baraja (Sundanese script ᮘᮛᮏ)

1. (poetic) weapon

   Synonyms: pakarang, sanjata

• "BARADJA", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij