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tralla

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *trāgla, from Latin trāgula (“javelin”).

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Noun

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tralla f (plural tralles)

  1. whiplash, whipcord

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾaɟa/ [ˈt̪ɾa̠.ɟɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aɟa
  • Hyphenation: tra‧lla

Etymology 1

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From Latin trāgula,[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

Noun

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tralla f (plural trallas)

  1. main ropes of some nets: sinker line and float line
  2. whip
    Synonym: látego
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  1. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. tralla.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “traer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

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Verb

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tralla

  1. inflection of trallar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Contraction

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tralla

  1. (dated) Contraction of tra la.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

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Verb

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tralla (present tense trallar, past tense tralla, past participle tralla, passive infinitive trallast, present participle trallande, imperative tralla/trall)

  1. to sing casually, wordlessly, (sing tralala), to hum

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin trāgula, from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈtɾaʝa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈtɾaʎa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʎa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈtɾaʃa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈtɾaʒa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʒa]

 

  • Syllabification: tra‧lla

Noun

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tralla f (plural trallas)

  1. whip

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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From tralala, onomatopoeic.

Verb

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tralla (present trallar, preterite trallade, supine trallat, imperative tralla)

  1. to sing a (happy) melody, replacing the words with sequences of sounds like "tra-la-la"
    Hon trallade på en melodi
    She was "tra-la-la'ing" a melody
Conjugation
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Conjugation of tralla (weak)
active passive
infinitive tralla trallas
supine trallat trallats
imperative tralla —
imper. plural1 trallen —
present past present past
indicative trallar trallade trallas trallades
ind. plural1 tralla trallade trallas trallades
subjunctive2 tralle trallade tralles trallades
present participle trallande
past participle trallad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English trolley. Attested since 1891.

Noun

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tralla c

  1. a small, low, open wagon used for transport (on a railroad or in a generalized sense with wheels); a trolley, a handcar
Declension
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Declension of tralla
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tralla trallas
definite trallan trallans
plural indefinite trallor trallors
definite trallorna trallornas
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