rayado

Spanish

Etymology

From rayar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /raˈʝado/ [raˈʝa.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): /raˈʝado/ [raˈʝa.ð̞o] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /raˈʃado/ [raˈʃa.ð̞o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /raˈʒado/ [raˈʒa.ð̞o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Audio (Costa Rica):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ra‧ya‧do
• Homophone: rallado (with yeísmo)

Adjective

rayado (feminine rayada, masculine plural rayados, feminine plural rayadas)

1. scratched
2. striped
3. (Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Southern Cone, colloquial) crazy, mad

Derived terms

• chacal rayado
• comadreja rayada africana (“African striped weasel”)
• disco rayado (“broken record”)
• perico rayado

Noun

rayado m (plural rayados)

1. skipjack
2. (Chile, in the plural) graffiti

Participle

rayado (feminine rayada, masculine plural rayados, feminine plural rayadas)

1. past participle of rayar

Further reading

• “rayado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025