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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Expressions · Common

alharaca

fuss, an overreaction to something unimportantreacción exagerada, aspaviento por algo sin importancia

Comes from Arabic

الحَرَكَة

al-ḥaraka

“the movement”«el movimiento»

Arabic today says

ضَجَّة

ḍajja

Root

ح ر ك

ḥ-r-k

The article

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

The story

Ḥaraka is "movement" and still is in Arabic; Spanish kept the excessive movement of someone who gesticulates and gets worked up over nothing.Ḥaraka es «movimiento» y lo sigue siendo en árabe; en español se quedó con el movimiento excesivo de quien gesticula y se alborota por nada.

In a sentence

Lo dijo sin alharacas, con toda calma.

He said it without any fuss, perfectly calmly.

قَالَهُ بِلَا ضَجَّة، بِكُلِّ هُدُوء.

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