trappa

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Swedish trappa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɹaʰpːa]

trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)

1. stairs, stairway

• Homophones: trappas, trappât

trappa

1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

• trapa

Presumably related to Old English træppe (“trap, snare”) (whence English trap), possibly borrowed from Frankish *trappā (“staircase”).

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Medieval Latin)[1]

1. trap, pit

First-declension noun.

• trappula, trapula

• Catalan: trapa
  • → Galician: trapa
• Old French: trape, trappe
  • Middle French: trappe, trape
    • French: trappe
• Occitan: trapa

• trappen

trappa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of trapp

trappa f

1. definite singular of trapp

From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Faroese trappa.

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trappa c

1. staircase, stairs

• → Finnish: rappu, trappu
  • → Ingrian: trappu (from earlier trappu)

• tr.
• trapp

trappa (present trappar, preterite trappade, supine trappat, imperative trappa)

1. See trappa av, trappa upp and trappa ned.

• trappa av
• trappa ned
• trappa upp

• trappa in Svensk ordbok.
• trappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• rappat, tappar, tappra