Noun: traba
Gender: f
Hyphenation: tra‧ba
| Singular f | traba |
| Plural f | trabas |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [2021 March 22, Jamil Chade, “Ai Weiwei: “Occidente está perdiendo sus valores””, in El País, retrieved 23 Mar 2021:]
Nouns inflected like traba
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin trabs (“timber”). Compare English trave (“crossbeam”). See: Latin Nouns '
trabs', English Nouns '
trave'.
Translations
interlock, To fit or clasp together securely