Italian edit

Etymology edit

From tra- +‎ ballare; cognate with Piedmontese trabalé.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tra.balˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: tra‧bal‧là‧re

Verb edit

traballàre (first-person singular present trabàllo, first-person singular past historic traballài, past participle traballàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

  1. to stagger
  2. to tremble
  3. (figurative, by extension) to be in a precarious state; to be shaky
    lo stato traballathe government is shaky
  4. (chess, by extension) to be hanging
    dopo questa tattica, il cavallo del bianco traballa
    after this tactic, white's knight hangs

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