traha

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From trahō (drag) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Noun

traha f (genitive trahae); first declension

  1. a kind of threshing instrument in form of a jagged board pulled by beasts, drag
    • Vulg. I Paralipomenon 20
      Manubias quoque urbis plurimas tulit; populum autem, qui erat in ea, eduxit, et fecit super eos tribulas, et trahas, et ferrata carpenta transire, ita ut dissecarentur, et contererentur.
      He also took many spoils from the city; and the people in it he brought out and made threshing sledges, drags and iron chariots go over them, so they be snithen apart and grounden together.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italian: treggia ?

References

  • traha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • traha in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • traha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese trabalhar; compare Spanish trabajar and Kabuverdianu trabadja.

Verb

traha

  1. to work
  2. to make
  3. to build