matraca

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

matraca (plural matracas)

1. A type of wooden rattle from Latin America.

   Synonyms: cog rattle, noisemaker, ratchet

Borrowed from Arabic مِطْرَقَة (miṭraqa).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈtɾa.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈtɾa.ka]

matraca f (plural matraques)

1. matraca (type of rattle formerly used to replace bells during Holy Week)

• “matraca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Arabic مَطْرَق (maṭraq, “stick, hammer”). See Aramaic מטרקא (mṭrqʾ) for more.

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ma‧tra‧ca

matraca f (plural matracas)

1. (music) ratchet, wooden rattle
2. (informal) chatterbox (one who chats or talks to excess)
3. (informal) mouth

• matraquilhos

From dialectal Arabic مَطْرَق (maṭraq). See Aramaic מטרקא (mṭrqʾ) for more.

• IPA^(key): /maˈtɾaka/ [maˈt̪ɾa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ma‧tra‧ca

matraca f (plural matracas)

1. (music) ratchet, wooden rattle
2. (colloquial) a pestering, plaguing
3. (Rioplatense, colloquial) penis
4. a wren of the genus Campylorhynchus

• → English: matraca
• → Tagalog: matraka, pataraka

• “matraca”, 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