traba

See also: trabá, trąba, and trąbą

Bwatoo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaba/

Noun

traba

1. water

References

• Jean Claude Rivierre, Sabine Ehrhart, Raymond Diéla, Le Bwatoo: et les dialectes de la région de Koné (2006)
• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Galician

Verb

traba

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

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin trabs (“timber”). Compare English trave (“crossbeam”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

traba f (plural trabas)

1. catch (concealed difficulty)
2. obstacle

   Synonym: obstáculo

   • 2021 March 22, Jamil Chade, “Ai Weiwei: “Occidente está perdiendo sus valores””, in El País‎^[1], retrieved 23 March 2021:

     Pero enseguida descubrió que las trabas para contar lo que pasó en el primer epicentro de la pandemia no solo las ponía el Partido Comunista Chino.

     But he immediately found that obstacles to reporting what happened in the first epicentre of the pandemic were not only being imposed by the Chinese Communist Party.

3. shackle

   Synonym: grillete

4. hobble (for a horse), hopple

   Synonyms: manea, suelta, atadura

5. (Southern Cone, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Spain) hair clip, barrette, hairslide
6. (Colombia, Venezuela, uncountable) weed

   Synonyms: marihuana, cannabis

7. (Colombia, Venezuela, countable) a high
8. (Caribbean, Mexico, countable) cockfight
9. (Caribbean, Mexico, countable) cockpit (enclosure for cockfights)
10. (Canary Islands) clothes peg

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

traba

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

Further reading

• “traba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025