marraqueta

From Romani marro (“bread”) +‎ -aco +‎ -eta. In Portuguese marrucate.

• IPA^(key): /maraˈketa/ [ma.raˈke.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ma‧rra‧que‧ta

marraqueta f (plural marraquetas)

1. a type of bread common in Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina

• A half loaf is known as pan batido in the Valparaíso Region.

• pan francés
• baguette
• bolillo
• hallulla

• “marraqueta”, 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
• José d’Oliveira China (1 June 1935) “Elementos ciganos na gíria brasileira”, in Revista do Arquivo Municipal de São Paulo (in Portuguese), volume 13, page 23