Trappe

See also: trappe and trappé

English

Etymology

Possibly named in reference to wolf traps, or possibly after a Trappist monastery.

Proper noun

Trappe

  1. A town in Maryland.
  2. A borough of Pennsylvania.

References
  • Wood, J. A. (2016). Beyond the Ballpark: The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends. United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p. 67

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Middle High German trappe, possibly a borrowing from Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *dropъty, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“run”) and the other from Proto-Slavic *pъta (“bird”), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (“a young, a child, a little animal”).[1][2]

See also Russian дрофа (drofa), Czech drop, Polish drop, Romanian dropie.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -apə

Noun

Trappe f (genitive Trappe, plural Trappen)

  1. (birds) bustard

Declension
Declension of Trappe [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Trappe die Trappen
genitive einer der Trappe der Trappen
dative einer der Trappe den Trappen
accusative eine die Trappe die Trappen

References
  1. Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “drop”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, pages 157–158
  2. Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “pták”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 569

Further reading
  • “Trappe” in Duden online
  • “Trappe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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