raqueta
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French raquette. possibly from Arabic رَاحَةْ اليَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm”), or a variant of rachasser (“chase back, hit back”).
Pronunciation
Noun
raqueta f (plural raquetes)
Further reading
- “raqueta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁaˈkɛ.tɐ/ [haˈkɛ.tɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁaˈkɛ.tɐ/ [χaˈkɛ.tɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁaˈkɛ.ta/ [haˈkɛ.ta]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁaˈkɛ.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: ra‧que‧ta
Noun
raqueta f (plural raquetas)
- alternative form of raquete
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian racchetta or French raquette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raˈketa/ [raˈke.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: ra‧que‧ta
Noun
raqueta f (plural raquetas)
- racket
- snowshoe
- a slip road on the right-hand side of the main road, used for making left turns or u-turns, a jughandle lane.
Further reading
- “raqueta”, 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