handrajo

Ladino

Uncertain. Federico Corriente considers the Andalusian Arabic حَطْرَجْ (ḥaṭraj, “foolish”) that appears in Vocabulista in Arabico and that comes from the known root ه ت ر (h t r) (the same as مُهْتَر (muhtar, “disordered in his intellect”) in Lane’s lexicon).^[1]^[2] Compare Spanish andrajo.

handrajo m (Hebrew spelling חאנדראז׳ו, plural handrajos)^[3]

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- 2013 April 30, Renée Levine Melammed, chapter 3, in An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty‎^[1], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
  Antes madres azian kouklas de handrajo.
  Earlier mothers were making ragdolls.
pastry filling made from eggplant and tomato
- 1999, Los Muestros‎^[2], R. Capuia, page 35:
  Pastelikos i arope,
  Yaprakitos kon sharope,
  Burrikitas de handrajo
  Ya tornimos a komer.
  Little pastries and grape syrup, little dolmathes with syrup, little residues from a tomato and eggplant pastry, we already went back to eat.

^ Federico CORRIENTE; reflejos iberorromances del andalusí {ḥṭr}; in Al-Andalus Magreb nº 01 (1993).
^ “هتر” in Edward William LANE; Arabic-English Lexicon; Williams & Norgate: London: 1863.
^ “handrajo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.