trava

Inherited from Old Catalan trava, from Latin trabem (“beam, rafter”). The ending may have been changed to /-a/ due to the word's feminine gender, or a new singular trava could have been back-derived from the original plural traves (cf. xinxa < xinxes). Alternately, trava could simply be a deverbal of travar, a verb derived from the same Latin source.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾa.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɾa.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾa.va]

trava f (plural traves)

1. fetter, hobble, shackle
2. catch, block
3. (figurative) hindrance, obstacle

• travar

• “trava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “trava”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

trava

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

Ultimately from Swedish trav. Cognate with Finnish ravi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑʋɑ/, [ˈtrɑʋɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑʋɑ/, [ˈtrɑʋɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋɑ
• Hyphenation: tra‧va

trava

1. trot (specific type of running of a horse)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 597

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: tra‧va

Deverbal from travar (“to lock, to hinder”).

trava f (plural travas)

1. fetter (a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal)

   Synonym: peia

trava

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trava.

• IPA^(key): /trǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: tra‧va

tráva f (Cyrillic spelling тра́ва)

1. (uncountable) grass (plant of the family Poaceae)
2. herb
3. (slang) weed, pot

   On s(j)edi na svom krevetu pušeći travu i čitajući Dostojevskog.

   He's sitting on his bed, smoking pot and reading Dostoyevsky.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:trava.

• travnjak

• “trava”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *trava.

• IPA^(key): /tràːʋa/

tráva f

1. grass (plant of the family Poaceae)

• travojédec

• “trava”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “trava”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Clipping of travesti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾaba/ [ˈt̪ɾa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: tra‧va

trava ? (plural travas)

1. (derogatory, slang, at least in Argentina) a transvestite or trans woman
   • 2008 August, “Salud, VIH-sida y sexualidad trans. Atención de la salud de personas travestis y transexuales. Estudio de seroprevalencia de VIH en personas trans”, in Ministry of Health of Argentina‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 December 2023:

     El 81,12% de las encuestadas refirió haber sufrido situaciones violentas por parte de la policía. Entre los principales abusos policiales sufridos se indican las detenciones ilegales, el hostigamiento verbal en el ámbito público (insultos tales como “travuco”, “travesaño”, “trava”, o bien, el uso de un nombre masculino, entre algunos de los calificativos despectivos más usuales o amenazas, especialmente vinculadas al ejercicio del trabajo sexual).

     81.12% of those surveyed mentioned having been subjected to violent encounters with the police. Some of the main police abuses suffered were unlawful detention, verbal abuse in public (insults such as "transvestite," "trap," "tranny," or even the use of a masculine name, among some of the more typical epithets or threats, especially those linked to sex work).

   • 2009 December 26, Lohana Berkins, “La Navidad de las travas”, in Página 12‎^[2], retrieved 20 December 2023:

     Aunque sea por ese instante el mundo enmudecerá y no habrá insultos de trava, travesaño, trabuco, hombre vestido de mujer, mascarita sidótica, simulacro, colita, parecida, transfor..

     Even if only for that instant, the world will fall silent and there will be no insults of tranny, transvestite, trap, man dressed as a woman, AIDS hider, pretender, masquerader..

Inherited from Old Swedish trava, likely from Middle Low German traven. Cognate of Latin trepidus

trava (present travar, preterite travade, supine travat, imperative trava)

1. to trot

• högtravande

• trav
• travare

• galoppera
• skritta

trave +‎ -a

trava (present travar, preterite travade, supine travat, imperative trava)

1. to stack (making a neat stack)

• trave

• stapla

• trava in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trava in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trava in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)