# tralla
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *trāgla, from Latin trāgula (“javelin”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾa.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɾa.ʎa]

### Noun

tralla f (plural tralles)
* whiplash, whipcord

### Further reading

* “tralla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾaɟa/ [ˈt̪ɾa̠.ɟɐ]
* Rhymes: -aɟa
* Hyphenation: tra‧lla

### Etymology 1

From Latin trāgula, from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

#### Noun

tralla f (plural trallas)
* main ropes of some nets: sinker line and float line
* whip
    Synonym: látego

##### Related terms

* entrallar
* trallazo
* trallo

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tralla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tralla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tralla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. tralla.
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “traer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tralla
* inflection of trallar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Contraction

tralla
* (dated) Contraction of tra la.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* tralle

### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²trɑlːɑ/

### Verb

tralla (present tense trallar, past tense tralla, past participle tralla, passive infinitive trallast, present participle trallande, imperative tralla/trall)
* to sing casually, wordlessly, (sing tralala), to hum

### References

* “tralla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin trāgula, from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾaʝa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʝa]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈtɾaʝa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʝa]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈtɾaʎa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʎa]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈtɾaʃa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʃa]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈtɾaʒa/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ʒa]
* Rhymes: -aʝa
* Rhymes: -aʝa
* Rhymes: -aʎa
* Rhymes: -aʃa
* Rhymes: -aʒa
* Syllabification: tra‧lla

### Noun

tralla f (plural trallas)
* whip

#### Derived terms

* trallazo

### Further reading

* “tralla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From tralala, onomatopoeic.

#### Verb

tralla (present trallar, preterite trallade, supine trallat, imperative tralla)
* to sing a (happy) melody, replacing the words with sequences of sounds like "tra-la-la"
    Hon trallade på en melodiShe was "tra-la-la'ing" a melody

##### Derived terms

* (subgenre of punk rock) trallpunk

##### See also

* gnola
* lalla
* nynna

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English trolley. Attested since 1891.

#### Noun

tralla c
* a small, low, open wagon used for transport (on a railroad or in a generalized sense with wheels); a trolley, a handcar

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | tralla | trallas |
| singular | definite | trallan | trallans |
| plural | indefinite | trallor | trallors |
| plural | definite | trallorna | trallornas |

##### Derived terms

* handtralla

##### References

* tralla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* tralla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tralla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)