traballar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese traballar, from Vulgar Latin *tripaliāre, present active infinitive of *tripaliō, from tripalium (“a torture instrument”), from Latin tripālis (“that which has three stakes”), from tria + pālus.

Cognate with Portuguese and Occitan trabalhar, Asturian trabayar, Spanish trabajar, Catalan treballar, French travailler.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaβaˈʎaɾ/

traballar (first-person singular present traballo, first-person singular preterite traballei, past participle traballado)

1. (intransitive) to work

   Synonym: choiar

2. (intransitive) to struggle, strive

   Synonym: esforzar

3. (transitive) to exert an effort on something; usually referred to a field (cultivate), dough (knead), or iron (forge).
4. first-person and third-person singular future subjunctive of traballar
5. first-person and third-person singular personal infinitive of traballar

• traballo

• “traballar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “traball” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “traballar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “traballar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “traballar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.