arañar

Etymology
. Possibly derived from, from , with the sense taken from that of making shallow furrows or grooves. Alternatively, linked to from 🇨🇬, though a semantic link is difficult; perhaps the meaning stemmed from the spider being an aggressive animal, to that of fighting or quarreling, and later a secondary sense of "scratch" developed as a result (compare 🇨🇬 and modern 🇨🇬, which may be of Germanic origin instead; see also old 🇨🇬). It may instead have a link to the meaning developed in 🇨🇬, which itself was derived from the same Latin word, (cf. also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, which may come from a variant form ; compare, the alternative form of arañar, which may alternatively have been influenced by ). In this theory, the original meaning was to scrape or scratch oneself to relieve an itch, but this has not been attested. It is possible the relation with is more indirect, however.

Verb

 * 1)  to scratch