See also: trappe and trappé

English

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Etymology

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Possibly named in reference to wolf traps, or possibly after a Trappist monastery.

Proper noun

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Trappe

  1. A town in Maryland.
  2. A borough of Pennsylvania.

References

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  • Wood, J. A. (2016). Beyond the Ballpark: The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p. 67

Anagrams

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German trappe, possibly a borrowing from Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *dropъty, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (run) and the other from Proto-Slavic *pъta (bird), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (a young, a child, a little animal).[1][2]

See also Russian дрофа (drofa), Czech drop, Polish drop, Romanian dropie.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -apə

Noun

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Trappe f (genitive Trappe, plural Trappen)

  1. (birds) bustard

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “drop”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, pages 157–158
  2. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “pták”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 569

Further reading

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  • Trappe” in Duden online
  • Trappe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache