tra

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

tra (plural tra)

1. The catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.

From tra-la-la.

tra

1. A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune.

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

From Latin trabis (“beam”).

tra m (plural trenj, definite trau, definite plural trenjët)

1. beam

• trath
• trenoj

tra m (plural traoù)

1. thing

• IPA^(key): [ˈtra]

tra

1. masculine singular present transgressive of třít

   Synonym: tře

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-Germanic *tradō (“spoor, track”). More at 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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• Hyphenation: 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Ido: tra
• → Novial: tra

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”)

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

From Old Frisian thrē.

tra m (f, n trii)

1. (Mooring) three

tra

1. Alternative spelling of trá

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

• IPA^(key): [tra]

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.

• tara

From Latin intrā.

• IPA^(key): /tra/

tra

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

• fra

Contraction of tara.

tra

1. other

tra

1. last, past
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎:

     da tarra sondeh mi no si ju

     Last Sunday, I didn't see you

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˧˧]

From Middle Vietnamese tla.

tra

1. to put in or fit in (a part such as a tenon into a mortise)

   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

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