arañar
/aɾaˈɲaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to scratch
🐱🩹 arañar sounds like 'araña' (spider) legs scraping: a-ra-ñar = scratch
Arañar comes from araña, Spanish for spider. Spiders have thin, scratchy legs, and the verb means to scratch like those legs scraping a surface. Link the word araña to the action: spider legs scrape, so arañar = to scratch.