traffic
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
broadcasting
business
marketing
media
radio
Etymology: From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: traffics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: traffick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: traffique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: traffics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trafficking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trafficked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trafficked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: traffick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: traffique
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more traffic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most traffic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: traffick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: traffique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The traffic is slow during rush hour.
VVhoſe miſaduentures, piteous ouerthrovves, / (Through the continuing of their Fathers ſtrife, / And death-markt paſſage of their Parents rage) / Is novv the tvvo hovvres traffique of our Stage.
gloss: The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish
Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
gloss: The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.
gloss: The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian.
gloss: The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
gloss: The commodities of the market.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
gloss: To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
gloss: Congested.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
examples: It’s super traffic here in Manila.
Derived words: 5 o'clock traffic
advanced traffic management
air traffic
air traffic control
air traffic controller
antitraffic
brain traffic
byway open to all traffic
centralised traffic control
cybertraffic
dark traffic
felony traffic stop
foot traffic
go and play in the traffic
go and play in traffic
go play in the traffic
go play in traffic
go with the flow of traffic
intertraffic
mall traffic
mixed-traffic
narcotraffic
non-traffic
nontraffic
stop traffic
teletraffic
through traffic
traffic advisory
trafficator
traffic barrel
traffic barrier
traffic beam
traffic boy
traffic bump
traffic calming
traffic circle
traffic code
traffic cone
traffic conference area
traffic cop
traffic court
traffic drum
traffic-free
traffic furniture
traffic garden
traffic generator
traffic island
traffic jam
trafficky
traffic lead
traffic leash
trafficless
traffic-light
traffic light
traffic mile
traffic officer
traffic of influence
traffic paddle
traffic park
traffic police
traffic shaping
traffic sign
traffic signal
traffic signal box
traffic spikes
traffic stop
traffic stopper
traffic ticket
traffic violation
traffic warden
trafficway
trafficwise
way-traffic
sex-traffic
sex trafficking
trafficability
trafficable
trafficker
trafficking
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: trafik
lang: Amharic
word: ትራፊክ
roman: tərafik
lang: Arabic
word: مُرُور
roman: murūr
lang: Armenian
word: երթեւեկություն
roman: ertʻewekutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: երթևեկություն
roman: ertʻewekutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: երթևեկում
roman: ertʻewekum
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yol hərəkəti
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hərəkət
lang: Bashkir
word: хәрәкәт
roman: xərəkət
lang: Bashkir
word: юл хәрәкәте
roman: yul xərəkəte
lang: Basque
word: trafiko
lang: Belarusian
word: рух
roman: rux
lang: Belarusian
word: тра́фік
roman: tráfik
lang: Bulgarian
word: движе́ние
roman: dvižénie
lang: Burmese
word: အသွားအလာ
roman: a.swa:a.la
lang: Catalan
word: trànsit
lang: Catalan
word: circulació
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 交通
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 交通
roman: jiāotōng
lang: Czech
word: doprava
lang: Danish
word: trafik
lang: Danish
word: færdsel
lang: Dutch
word: verkeer
lang: Esperanto
word: trafiko
lang: Estonian
word: liiklus
lang: Finnish
word: liikenne
lang: French
word: circulation
lang: French
word: trafic
lang: Galician
word: tráfico
lang: Georgian
word: მოძრაობა
roman: moʒraoba
lang: German
word: Verkehr
lang: German
word: Personenverkehr
lang: Bavarian German
word: Vakea
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּנוּעָה
roman: t'nu'á
lang: Hindi
word: यातायात
roman: yātāyāt
lang: Hindi
word: परिवहन
roman: parivhan
lang: Hindi
word: आवागमन
roman: āvāgman
lang: Hungarian
word: forgalom
lang: Icelandic
word: umferð
lang: Ido
word: trafiko
lang: Indonesian
word: lalu lintas
lang: Irish
word: trácht
lang: Italian
word: traffico
lang: Italian
word: viabilità
lang: Japanese
word: 交通
roman: kōtsū
lang: Kazakh
word: қозғалыс
roman: qozğalys
lang: Khmer
word: ចរាចរ
roman: cɑɑraacɑɑ
lang: Korean
word: 교통
roman: gyotong
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кыймыл
roman: kıymıl
lang: Lao
word: ຈາລະຈອນ
roman: chā la chǭn
lang: Latin
word: transitus
lang: Latvian
word: satiksme
lang: Lithuanian
word: eismas
lang: Macedonian
word: соо́браќај
roman: soóbraḱaj
lang: Malay
word: lalu lintas
lang: Malay
word: trafik
lang: Malayalam
word: ഗതാഗതം
roman: gatāgataṁ
lang: Marathi
word: रहदारी
roman: rahdārī
lang: Norman
word: trafi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trafikk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ferdsel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: trafikk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ferdsel
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تِرافیک
roman: terâfik
lang: Iranian Persian
word: عُبور و مُرور
roman: obur o morur
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَرَدُّد
roman: taraddod
lang: Polish
word: ruch drogowy
lang: Polish
word: komunikacja
lang: Polish
word: ruch uliczny
lang: Portuguese
word: tráfego
lang: Portuguese
word: trânsito
lang: Romanian
word: circulație
lang: Romanian
word: trafic
lang: Romanian
word: circulație rutieră
lang: Russian
word: движе́ние
roman: dvižénije
lang: Russian
word: тра́фик
roman: tráfik
lang: Scots
word: traffec
lang: Scots
word: traffeck
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: trafaig
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: са̏обраћа̄ј
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: про́мет
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȁobraćāj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prómet
lang: Sicilian
word: tràficu
lang: Slovak
word: doprava
lang: Slovene
word: promet
lang: Spanish
word: tráfico
lang: Spanish
word: tránsito
lang: Spanish
word: circulación
lang: Swedish
word: trafik
lang: Swedish
word: samfärdsel
lang: Tagalog
word: trapiko
lang: Tajik
word: ҳаракат
roman: harakat
lang: Tamil
word: திரக்கு
roman: tirakku
lang: Tatar
word: хәрәкәт
roman: xäräkät
lang: Tatar
word: юл хәрәкәте
roman: yul xäräkäte
lang: Thai
word: จราจร
roman: jà-raa-jɔɔn
lang: Tigrinya
word: ትራፊክ
roman: tərafik
lang: Turkish
word: trafik
lang: Turkish
word: seyrüsefer
lang: Ukrainian
word: рух
roman: rux
lang: Ukrainian
word: тра́фік
roman: tráfik
lang: Urdu
word: ٹَرافِک
roman: ṭarāfik
lang: Urdu
word: سَودا
roman: saudā
lang: Urdu
word: آمد و رفت
roman: āmad-o-raft
lang: Uyghur
word: قاتناش
roman: qatnash
lang: Uzbek
word: harakat
lang: Uzbek
word: yoʻl harakati
lang: Vietnamese
word: sự giao thông
lang: Vietnamese
word: giao thông
lang: Welsh
word: traffig
lang: Yiddish
word: אומגאַנג
roman: umgang
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַרקער
roman: farker
lang: Belarusian
word: тра́фік
roman: tráfik
lang: Bulgarian
word: тра́фик
roman: tráfik
lang: Catalan
word: tràfic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 流量
roman: liúliàng
lang: Czech
word: provoz
lang: Dutch
word: verkeer
lang: Finnish
word: tietoliikenne
lang: German
word: Verkehr
lang: German
word: Datenverkehr
lang: Bavarian German
word: Vakea
lang: Hebrew
word: עומס
roman: ómes
lang: Hindi
word: संपर्क
roman: sampark
lang: Hindi
word: संवाद
roman: samvād
lang: Italian
word: traffico
lang: Japanese
word: 交信
roman: kōshin
lang: Japanese
word: トラフィック
roman: torafikku
lang: Korean
word: 교신
roman: gyosin
lang: Korean
word: 트래픽
roman: teuraepik
lang: Macedonian
word: соо́браќај
roman: soóbraḱaj
lang: Māori
word: whitirau
lang: Polish
word: komunikacja
lang: Portuguese
word: tráfego
lang: Portuguese
word: trânsito
lang: Russian
word: тра́фик
roman: tráfik
lang: Scots
word: traffec
lang: Scots
word: traffeck
lang: Sicilian
word: curtigghiu
lang: Sicilian
word: tràficu
lang: Swedish
word: trafik
lang: Ukrainian
word: тра́фік
roman: tráfik