different between tren vs tref

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??n/

Noun

tren (plural trens)

1. A fish spear.

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Translations

Anagrams

• Rent, rent, tern

Aragonese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. train

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “tren”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Pronunciation

Noun

tren m (plural trenes)

1. (transport, railway) train

Basque

Etymology

From French train

Noun

tren inan

1. (transport, railway) train

Catalan

Etymology

From French train.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?t??n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?t??n/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?en/

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. (transport, railway) train

Further reading

• “tren” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tren” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tren” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tren” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tren, from French train.

Noun

tren

1. train. locomotive

Central Melanau

Etymology

From English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from trainer, from Vulgar Latin *tragin?, from *trag?, from Latin trah?.

Noun

tren

1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

Galician

Etymology 1

13th century. From Old French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???/

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. (nautical) fishing tackle; leadline
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

     a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in panwn for 600 mor.

Etymology 2

19th century. Ultimately from French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???/

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. a connected sequence of things (in time or space)

   Synonyms: serie, secuencia

   1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

Derived terms

• tren de ondas (“wavetrain”)

References

• “tren” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tren” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tren” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tren” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English trend, from Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve", from Old English trendan "to roll about, turn, revolve" from Proto-Germanic *trandijan? (“to revolve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr?n/
• Hyphenation: trèn

Noun

tren or trèn

1. trend.

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay tren.

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “tren” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from trainer, from Vulgar Latin *tragin?, from *trag?, from Latin trah?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tren/
• Rhymes: -en

Noun

tren (Jawi spelling ?????, plural tren-tren, informal 1st possessive trenku, impolite 2nd possessive trenmu, 3rd possessive trennya)

1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian tren.

Synonyms

• kereta api / ????? ????

Middle English

Adjective

tren

1. Alternative form of treen

Noun

tren pl

1. Alternative form of treen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tren

1. imperative of trene

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tren

1. imperative of trena and trene

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr??/

Noun

tren m (plural tren)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?n/

Etymology 1

From French traîne.

Noun

tren m inan

1. train (part of gown that is drawn along)

Etymology 2

From Latin thr?nus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thrênos).

Noun

tren m inan

1. (poetry) dirge, lamentation (sorrowful work of poetry)

Declension

Further reading

• tren in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tren in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tren/

Noun

tren n (plural trenuri)

1. (transport, railway) train

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tren?, from earlier *trepn?, related to treptati (“to blink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trên/

Noun

tr?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. moment (brief amount of time)

Declension

Synonyms

• ??s
• m?h

Derived terms

• trenútak
• tr?nuti
• tr?n?tan

References

• “tren” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

From French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?en/, [?t???n]

Noun

tren m (plural trenes)

1. (transport, railway) train

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Moroccan Arabic: ????? (tr?n)
• ? Tagalog: tren
• ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: treni?
• ? Yaqui: tréen

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from French train, through Spanish tren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??n], [tr?n]

Noun

tren

1. (transport, railway) train

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?en/

Noun

tren (definite accusative treni, plural trenler)

1. (transport, railway) train

Declension

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian treno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr??/

Noun

tren m (plural treni)

1. (transport, railway) train

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?en/

Noun

tren (nominative plural trens)

1. (transport, railway) train

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh tref (“town”).

Noun

tref (plural trefs)

1. (historical) A hamlet in Britain in pre-Saxon times.

Etymology 2

see treyf.

Adjective

tref (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of treyf (of food: not kosher)

Anagrams

• FRET, TERF, fret, reft, terf

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

tref

1. first-person singular present indicative of treffen
2. imperative of treffen

Anagrams

• erft, fret

Middle French

Etymology

Old French tref.

Noun

tref m (plural trefs)

1. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

References

• tref² on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Alternative forms

• treif

Etymology

Inherited from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs.

Noun

tref m (oblique plural tres, nominative singular tres, nominative plural tref)

1. beam
2. mast (on a watercraft)
3. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

Usage notes

• There is no consensus what the difference between paveillon, tente and tref is in Old French. There may be no difference, or the difference may vary according to the author.

Descendants

• ? Galician: treu
• Middle French: tref

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Treff.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trêf/

Noun

tr?f m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. ?, clubs in card- and boardgames

Declension

Coordinate terms

References

• “tref”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1976, published 1990, page 285
• “tref” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Welsh

Alternative forms

• tre
• trev (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tre?, from Proto-Celtic *treb?, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /tre?v/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /tre?/

Noun

tref f (plural trefi or trefydd)

1. town
2. home

Derived terms

• cantref
• trefgordd
• gorfodtref

Related terms

• adref
• cartref
• pentref
• trefol

See also

• dinas
• llan

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