trud

Inherited from Old Czech trud, from Proto-Slavic *trudъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrut]

trud m inan

1. effort, work, toil

   Krásný ten čas přelétl jako sen bez namáhání a trudu.

   That beautiful time flew by like a dream without strain and toil.

2. sorrow, trouble

   A jak se tak díval, všechny obavy a trudy s něho spadly.

   And as he looked around, all worries and troubles fell away from him.

• “trud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “trud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trudъ.

trud m inan

1. sorrow, grief, lamentation
2. work, activity, effort, exertion

• Slovak: trud

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “trud”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Inherited from Old Polish trud, from Proto-Slavic *trudъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrut/

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• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: trud
• Homophone: trut

trud m inan

1. toil
   • 1922, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Z dawnych dziejów, Lwów-Warszawa-Kraków: Wydawnictwo Zakładu Nar. Imienia Ossolińskich, page 167:

     Do syrakuzańskich kamieniołomów wzywano inżynierów i górników z Mesyny, opłacając na wagę złota ich trudy. […]

     Engineers and miners from Messina were summoned to the Syracuse quarries, and their labors were paid at a price worth of gold. […]

2. trouble

• “trud”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “trud”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trudъ.

trȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling тру̑д)

1. effort, work, toil

   I na kraju... sav je trud bio uzalud. ― And in the end... all the effort was in vain.

2. (in the plural) contractions (while giving birth)

• “trud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫdъ.

trȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling тру̑д)

1. tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius)

   Synonym: guba

• “trud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026