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

• Tapper, tapper

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”).

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

Pronunciation

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• 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

Further reading

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