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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Power & war · Specialized

adarga

a leather shield, oval or heart-shapedescudo de cuero, ovalado o en forma de corazón

Comes from Arabic

الدَّرَقَة

ad-daraqa

“leather shield”«escudo de cuero»

Arabic today says

تُرْس

turs

Root

د ر ق

d-r-q

The article

Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.

The story

Don Quixote already carries one in the novel's first sentence: an "adarga antigua". The Arabic q was voiced to g.Don Quijote ya la lleva en la primera frase de la novela: «adarga antigua». La q árabe se sonorizó en g.

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