tra

tra

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tirahi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tirahi terms

From Vietnamese (cá) tra, from Khmer ប្រា (praa, “certain Pangasius species”).

tra (plural tra)

1. Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”).

From tra-la-la.

tra

1. A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune.

• Tar, RAT, ART, ATR, art, TAR, RTA, rat, Rat, rta, Art, 'rat, tar, 'art, art.

• (definite singular) trau, trani, treni — Gheg
• (plural) trênë, tranë (rare), trêna — Gheg

From Latin trabem (“beam”).^[1]

tra m (plural trerë, definite trari, definite plural trerët)

1. beam, girder; timber

   Synonym: trung

2. (in the plural) scaffolding

   Synonym: skelë

3. (sports) balance beam
4. (ethnography) family, different house

   Synonym: familje

• trath
• trenoj

• “tra”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
• Mann, S. E. (1948), “trá, trâ”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 521

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tra n (plural traoù)

1. thing

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Middle Cornish tra, from Old Cornish tra. Cognate with Breton and Welsh tra.

tra f (plural traow or taklow)

1. item, object, thing
2. appliance

   Synonyms: darbar, pyth

3. (Revived Late Cornish) zero

• “tra” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtra]

tra

1. masculine singular present transgressive of třít

   Synonym: tře

Dalmatian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tra

From Latin trēs.

tra

1. three

• IPA^(key): /t̪a/

tra

1. earth, soil

• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990), Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Middle Dutch trā, trāde, from Old Dutch *trada, from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“spoor, track”). More at English trade.

• IPA^(key): /traː/

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tra c (plural tra's, diminutive traatje n)

1. path in the forest, trail
2. firebreak

• (path): pad, bospad
• (firebreak): brandgang

Derived from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“through, throughout, over”). Doublet of trans.

• IPA^(key): /tra/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tra

tra

1. through
   • 1920, Edmond Privat, Vivo de Zamenhof, London: Brita Esperanto-Asocio, page 202:

     Eĉ per verko lin koninte, multaj homoj tra la mondo lin rigardis kiel majstron la plej karan.

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• → Ido: tra

• “tra”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “tra”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Shortened from türa.

tra

1. (vulgar, Internet slang, text messaging) fuck

From Esperanto tra, from Latin trāns. Not to be confused with the paronym trans.

tra

1. through

   Ni iris tra la tunelo.

   We went through the tunnel.

• trae (“through, across”)
• tra-

• trans (“on the other side of”)

• trà (obsolete)

From Latin intrā, with influence from Latin inter.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /tra/^*, /tra/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: tra
• This word may or may not trigger syntactic gemination of the following consonant; both possibilities are allowable. Hence tra due minuti (“in two minutes”) can be pronounced either /tra‿dˈdue miˈnuti/ (with gemination) or /tra ˈdue miˈnuti/ (without it).

tra

1. between
2. among
3. in (expression of time)

   tra due settimane ― in two weeks

   tra pochissimo ― very soon

• See fra.

• fra

• tra poco

• tra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

• TAR

From Latin intrā.

• IPA^(key): /tra/

tra

1. between
2. among
3. in (expression of time)

• fra

North Frisian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tra     Ordinal : treed

• trii (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

From Old Frisian thrē.

• (Mooring) IPA^(key): [tʰra]

tra m (feminine and neuter trii, nominalized of persons trane)

1. (Mooring) three

tra

1. alternative spelling of trá

Univerbation of tar (“over, across”) +‎ a (“his, her, its, their”).

• dara, tara

• IPA^(key): /t̪ɾa/

tra (triggers lenition in the masculine/neuter singular, /h/-prothesis of the feminine singular, and nasalization (eclipsis) in the plural)

1. over/across his/her/its/their

The usual form is tara; the form tra occurs only twice, both in the Milan glosses.^[1] Thesaurus Palaehibernicus treats these two occurrences as scribal errors for tara, but Thurneysen treats them as genuine alternative forms.

From Latin intrā.

• IPA^(key): /tra/

tra

1. between
2. among
3. in (expression of time)

• fra

tra m inan (Cyrillic spelling тра)

1. (Croatia) abbreviation of travanj or travnja (“April”)

   Coordinate terms: sij, velj, ožu, svi, lip, srp, kol, ruj, lis, stu, pro

Contraction of tara.

tra

1. other

tra

1. last, past
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     da tarra sondeh mi no si ju

     Last Sunday, I didn't see you

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˧˧]
• (Vinh) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˧˥]

Cognate with Muong Bi tla (“to put in”).

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese tla in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

tra • (查)

1. to haft; to sheathe

   tra kiếm vào vỏ ― to sheathe one's sword

Sino-Vietnamese word from 查 (“to investigate, to examine”).

tra

1. to investigate, to examine, to inspect

The initial is from the distinct North Central shift *C-r- > *C-l-. The tone is also A1 (ngang), not A2 (huyền) like in the mainstream dialects.

tra

1. North Central Vietnam form of già (“old”)

From Proto-Brythonic *trans, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-.^[1] Cognate with English through, Latin trans.

• IPA^(key): /traː/
• Rhymes: -aː

tra (causes aspirate mutation)

1. (formal, poetic) quite, entirely, very

   Mae hynny'n fater tra gwahanol.

   That's an entirely different matter.

tra

1. while

   Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau

   While the sea is a wall to the pure loved land

   Mae Cymru yn aros tra bod Llafur yn trafod

   Wales waits while Labour debates

• tra-
• traws
• tros