tribulation

See also Tribulation

English

Etymology

Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin tribulatio (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from tribulare (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from tribulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terere (“to rub”); see trite.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /trɪ.bjə.leɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

tribulation (plural tribulations)

1. Any adversity; a trying period or event.
   • 27 June 1944, Herbert Hoover, Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican national convention.

     It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Translations

adversity

• Arabic: محنة (ar) (Mihna) f
• Dutch: beproeving (nl) f
• French: tribulation (fr) f
• Galician: tribulación (gl) f
• German: Trübsal (de) f

• Italian: tribolazione (it) f
• Norwegian: motgang (no) m, prøvelse (no) m, trengsel (no) m
• Scottish Gaelic: trioblaid (gd) f

External links

• tribulation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• tribulation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911