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jaqueca

migraine, a bad headachedolor de cabeza fuerte, migraña

Comes from Arabic

شَقِيقَة

shaqīqa

“pain in half the head (from "to split in half")”«dolor de media cabeza (de «partir por la mitad»)»

Arabic today says

صُدَاع نِصْفِيّ

ṣudāʿ niṣfī

Root

ش ق ق

sh-q-q

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

Arabic sh was written x in old Spanish (xaqueca) and ended up as j. Migraña (migraine), from Greek hēmikrania, means the same thing: "half the head".La sh árabe se escribía x en español antiguo (xaqueca) y acabó en j. Migraña, del griego hēmikrania, quiere decir lo mismo: «media cabeza».

In a sentence

Hoy no salgo, tengo jaqueca.

I'm not going out today, I have a migraine.

لَنْ أَخْرُجَ اليَوْم، عِنْدِي صُدَاعٌ نِصْفِيّ.

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