andurrial

Unknown. Proposed etymologies include:

• From Andalusian Arabic.
• From Basque andur.
• From andar (“to walk”).

• IPA^(key): /anduˈrjal/, [ãn̪d̪uˈrjal]

andurrial m (plural andurriales)

1. (usually in the plural) the bush (remote, undeveloped area); the backcountry; the sticks; the middle of nowhere
   • 1615, Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Segunda parte, Capítulo II

     Idos a la vuestra, hermano, que vos sois, y no otro, el que destrae y sonsaca a mi señor, y le lleva por esos andurriales.

     Be off to your own, brother, for it is you, and no one else, that delude my master, and lead him astray, and take him tramping about the country.

• “andurrial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.