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

Declension of trappa
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trappa	trappan	trappur	trappurnar
accusative	trappu	trappuna	trappur	trappurnar
dative	trappu	trappuni	trappum	trappunum
genitive	trappu	trappunnar	trappa	trappanna

• Homophones: trappas, trappât

trappa

1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

• trapa

Borrowed from Germanic. Compare Old English træppe. Found in the Lex Salica.^[1]

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. trap
2. trapdoor

First-declension noun.

• trappula

• Catalan: trapa
  • → Galician: trapa
• Franco-Provençal: 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, stairway, stairs, flight of stairs

   Hon gick upp/ner för trappan

   She walked up/down the stairs

   Trappan har tjugo trappsteg

   The staircase has twenty steps

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

• tr.
• trapp

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

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

• rulltrappa (“escalator”)
• trappa av
• trappa ner
• trappa upp
• trappavsats (“landing”)
• trapphus
• trappsteg
• trappstege (“stepladder”)
• trappuppgång

• trappa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trappa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trappa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• trappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• rappat, tappar, tappra