trappe

trappe

1. plural of trap

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā.

• IPA^(key): /trapə/, [ˈtˢʁɑb̥ə]

trappe c (singular definite trappen, plural indefinite trapper)

1. stairs, stairway
2. bustard

• “trappe” in Den Danske Ordbog

trappe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of trappen

From Middle French trappe, from Old French trape (“trap, snare”), from Old Frankish *trappā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, *tramp- (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”). More at English trap.

• IPA^(key): /tʁap/

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trappe f (plural trappes)

1. hatch or trap door
2. (slang) trap (mouth)

   Dumont a une grande trappe et est démagogue.

   Dumont has a big trap, and he's a demagogue.

• passer à la trappe

• “trappe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappā.

• trap, trape

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrap(ə)/

trappe (plural trappes)

1. trap (device for catching or restraining)
2. trap (situation arranged for catching)

• calketrappe
• trappen (“to trap”)

• English: trap
• Middle Scots: trap, trape, trop
  • Scots: trap
• Yola: traaps

• “trappe, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman trape, alteration of Old French drap, from Late Latin drappum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrap(ə)/

trappe (plural trappes or trappen)

1. A trapping or caparison; a decorated horse cover.
2. One's personal belongings or household goods.

• trappen (“to adorn a horse”)
• trappour

• English: trap (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: trap

• “trappe, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Middle French trape, trappe (“baking dish”), probably a special semantic development of Old French trape (“trap”) and thus ultimately identical to Etymology 1.

• tarppe, trap, trape

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrap(ə)/, /ˈtraːp(ə)/

trappe (plural trappes)

1. A baking dish.

• “trappe, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

trappe f (plural trappes)

1. (Jersey) trapdoor