Travail

Definition: Travail

Travail

Noun

1. Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours".

2. Use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion".

Verb

1. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Date "travail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Travail

Synonyms: childbed (n), confinement (n), effort (n), elbow grease (n), exertion (n), labour (n), lying-in (n), parturiency (n), sweat (n), dig (v), drudge (v), fag (v), grind (v), labor (v), moil (v), toil (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Exertion	Phrase: aide-toi le ciel t'aidera;" and still be doing, never done"; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie;" it is better to wear out than to rust out"; labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven"; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit; manu forti; ora et labora.
	Labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; industry, industriousness, operoseness, operosity.
Production	Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Travail

English words defined with "travail": At the downlying ♦ Travailed, Travailing, Travailous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "travail": Global System for Mobile Communications ♦ job clock ♦ proprietary information ♦ supervisory level, supervisory management ♦ time engineered study ♦ unfilled vacancies. (references)

Etymologies containing "travail": Travailous, Travois. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Travail" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (business, employ, employment, engagement, job, labor, labour, occupation, place, pursuit, task, work, working).

Domain	Title
Books	Dark Night of The Soul : Reflections of a Muslim in Travail (reference) The Travail of Nature : The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology(Theology and the Sciences) (reference) Travail and Triumph (Russians, 3) (reference) Yearbook of Labour Statistics 2001/Annuaire Des Statistiques Du Travail 2001/Anuario De Estadisticas Del Trabajo (Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 60th) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Bibliotheque De Travail Junior (reference) Bulletin Des Statistiques Du Travail (reference) Droit Africain Du Travail (reference) Ergonomie Hygiene Et Securite Conditions De Travail Et Envir (reference) Le Travail Humain (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Beau Travail (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Franklin's Travail (reference) Travail Au Noir [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fumigation prise par une négresse en travail. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Et lui? Aidez-nous á lui trouver du travail quand il reviendra. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Journée des Régions Libérées. Aprés la victoire, au travail!! Aidez-nous. Credit: Library of Congress.		Les Blessés au travail. Oeuvre pour les soldats convalescents ou réformés. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Journée des Régions Libérées. Aprés la victoire, au travail!! Aidez-nous. Credit: Library of Congress.		Les Blessés au travail. Oeuvre pour les soldats convalescents ou réformés. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Et lui? Aidez-nous á lui trouver du travail quand il reviendra. Credit: Library of Congress.		Zum ersten Mai. Proletarier aller Lander vereinigt euch! Le triomphe du travail ... Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	France	Non-EU nationals who intend to work or conduct any commercial activity in France must receive a long-term visa and a work permit (carte de travail) or business permit (carte de commerçant) before establishing residence in France. (references)
Human Rights	Morocco	Some of the students sought refuge in the Confederation Democratique du Travail (CDT) headquarters. (references)
Worker Rights	Haiti	Workers have access to labor courts (Tribunaux de Travail) set up to resolve common labor-management disputes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Travail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Travail" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.67%	29	64,444
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Expression using "travail": le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "travail": anti-travail, capital-travail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "travail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vuajtem nga dhimbje e lindjes, punë e rëndë (drudgery, elbow grease, moil, slavery, slog, swot, toil), dhimbje të lindjes (pains). (various references)

Arabic		‏كدح (drudge, drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labor, labour, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat, sweat blood, swot, toil, work hard), ‏عذاب عمل, ‏طلق ألم الولاده, ‏المخاض (childbirth). (various references)

Bulgarian		родилни мъки (labor, labor pains, labour, labour pains, pains, parturition, throes), тежък труд (slog, sweat), напрягам се (bestir, overstrain oneself, struggle), мъча се при раждане, правя усилие да създам нещо. (various references)

Farsi		مشقت (Hardship, Pressure), رنج زحمت , رنج بردن (Rack, Suffer, Toil), دردزایمان (Labor), دردشکیدن . (various references)

French		peiner (have trouble, try), labeur, douleur de l'enfantement, être en couche. (various references)

German		sich abrackern (moil, slave away, struggle, struggle away, sweat, sweat away). (various references)

Greek		κοιλοπονώ, ωδίνω, ωδίνεσ (labor, labour, throes). (various references)

Hebrew		לעמול (labor, labour, make effort, moil, slog, take pains, toil, work), ל�"תי�'ע (be tired, slog, tire, weary, worry oneself), צירי ל�"�" (birth pangs, labor pains, labour pains). (various references)

Hungarian		vajúdás (child birth, childbirth, labor, labor pains, labour, labour pains, lying in, pain, pains, parturition, throes). (various references)

Italian		doglie del parto (pain), avere le doglie del parto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		骨折り (ado). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほねおり (ado). (various references)

Manx		tooilleil (donkey-work, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, laboriousness, labour, tire, tiresomeness, toil, weary; wearying; elbow grease). (various references)

Pig Latin		availtray

Portuguese		trabalho penoso (sap), trabalhar arduamente, labutar (labor, labour, moider, moil, plod, plug, scrub, stew, toil, tug), labuta árdua, dores de parto (labour, pain). (various references)

Romanian		chinurile facerii (the throes of childbirth). (various references)

Russian		тяжелый труд (hard labor, slavery, toil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		porođajni bolovi (labor pains, labour pains), patnja (agony, misery, pain, suffering, torment), naporan rad (fag, faggot, labor intensive, labour intensive), agonija (agony, death-struggle, throe, torment). (various references)

Spanish		esfuerzo laborioso, dolores del parto (labor, labor pains, labour, labour pains, pains, pangs of childbirth), afanarse (drudge, slog, strive, toil). (various references)

Swedish		födslovånda. (various references)

Turkish		zahmet çekmek (be at pains, take pains, toil, toil and moil), zahmet (bother, exertion, grueling, gruelling, inconvenience, onerousness, pain, pains, painstaking, punishment, struggle, toil, trouble), sancılanmak (feel pains, have an ache, twinge), sancı (ache, colic, gripes, pain, pang, stitch, throe, twinge), doğum sancısı çekmek (be in labor, be in labour, labor, labour), doğum sancısı (labor, labour), doğum sancıları (labor pains, labour pain, labour pains). (various references)

Ukrainian		страждання (affliction, agony, bale, crucifixion, gyp, heartache, infliction, misery, pain, pathos, sufferance, suffering, torment, tribulation), важка праця (swot, toil, workout), виконувати важку роботу (break stones, moil), мучитися під час пологів, плогові муки. (various references)

Vietnamese		công việc vất vả (toil). (various references)

Welsh		trafaelu (travel), trafael (trouble). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tripalis. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	travail. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 38, Verse 27
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Egeneto de hnika etikten kai thde hn diduma en th gastri authV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Instante autem partu apparuerunt gemini in utero atque in ipsa effusione infantum unus protulit manum in qua obsetrix ligavit coccinum dicens
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	When tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered beholde there was .ij. twynnes in hyr wobe.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 38, Verse 27
Cebuano	Ug nahitabo nga sa panahon sa iyang pag-anak, tan-awa, dihay duruha sa iyang tiyan.
Croatian	Kad joj je došlo vrijeme da rodi, pokaže se da nosi blizance.
Danish	Da Tiden kom, at hun skulde føde, se, da var der Tvillinger i hendes Liv.
Dutch	En het geschiedde ten tijde, als zij baren zou, ziet, zo waren tweelingen in haar buik.
Finnish	Kun hänen synnyttämisensä aika tuli, katso, hänen kohdussaan oli kaksoiset.
French	Quand elle fut au moment d`accoucher, voici, il y avait deux jumeaux dans son ventre.
German	Und da sie gebären sollte, wurden Zwillinge in ihrem Leib gefunden.
Haitian Creole	Lè lè a rive pou Tama akouche, yo wè li te gen marasa nan vant li.
Hungarian	És lõn az õ szûlésének idején, ímé kettõsök valának az õ méhében.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ketika sudah waktunya Tamar bersalin, ternyata ia akan melahirkan anak kembar.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hata, maka apabila perempuan itu hendak beranak nyatalah ada anak kembar dalam rahimnya.
Italian	Quand'essa fu giunta al momento di partorire, ecco aveva nel grembo due gemelli.
Maori	A ka taka ki te wa e whanau ai ia, na, he mahanga kei roto i tona kopu.
Norwegian	Da den tid kom at hun skulde føde, se, da var det tvillinger i hennes liv.
Portuguese	Sucedeu que, ao tempo de ela dar � luz, havia gêmeos em seu ventre;
Rumanian	Cknd i -a venit vremea sq nascq, iatq cq kn pkntecele ei erau doi gemeni.
Russian	чП ЧТЕНС ТП�"ПЧ ЕЕ ПЛБЪБМПУШ, ЮФП �'МЙЪОЕ�"Щ Ч ХФТП�'Е ЕЕ.
Swedish	När hon nu skulle föda, se, då funnos tvillingar i hennes liv.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "travail": travailed, travailing, travails. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Travail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ravail, stroviol, Torsvale, Trabaria, trauaile, travaille, travais, traval, travil, traxail, treveal, triaxial, trival, trivil. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "travail" (pronounced truvā"l)
4	-u v ā" l	avail.
3	-v ā" l	prevail, surveil, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: atrial, lariat, latria.
	-2 letters: altar, artal, arval, atria, avail, laari, larva, ratal, riata, rival, talar, tiara, trail, trial, varia, viral, vital.
	-3 letters: airt, alar, alit, aria, aril, lair, lari, lati, lava, liar, lira, raia, rail, rial, tail, tala, tali, tirl, vail, vair, vara, vial, virl, vita.
	-4 letters: aal, ail, air, ait, ala, alt, art.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: travails, varietal.
	+2 letters: antiviral, salivator, travailed, varietals.
	+3 letters: alleviator, intravital, lacerative, lavatories, revalidate, salivators, supravital, travailing, vacillator.
	+4 letters: advertorial, alleviators, alternative, antislavery, clairvoyant, declarative, elaborative, invalidator, narratively, retaliative, revalidated, revalidates, revaluating, revaluation, translative, vacillators, variability, variational, vascularity, vasodilator, vibrational.
	+5 letters: accelerative, advertorials, alliterative, alternatives, ameliorative, articulative, attractively, avascularity, avuncularity, clairvoyants, derivational, exhilarative, intravitally, invalidators, malversation, multivariate, quadrivalent, reevaluating, reevaluation, revalidating, revalidation, revaluations, supravitally, transvaluing, valetudinary, valorization, vasodilators, velarization, visitatorial.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 76 61 69 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100001 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#118 &#97 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0076 0061 0069 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
du normes travail	268	norme travail	14
code du travail	134	accident du travail	13
du norme travail	126	de normes travail	13
travail	101	accord bilatéraux suisse travail	13
droit du travail	83	normes travail	13
commission des du normes travail	62	la maison travail	13
domicile travail	61	du medicine travail	13
du inspection travail	58	du normes quebec travail	12
contrat de travail	51	domicile travail à	12
collaboratif de espace travail	45	commission du normes travail	11
collaboratif de espaces travail	42	canadian code du travail	11
travail temporaire	30	commission des du norm travail	10
du les normes travail	26	de travail vetement	10
social travail	21	humaines poste ressources travail	10
saisonnier travail	20	de espaces travail	9
du norm travail	20	beau travail	9
du organisation travail	20	du normes québec travail	9
du ministere travail	16	du les loi normes sur travail	9
arab d travail	16	du ministre travail	8
de poste travail	16	certificat de travail	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Travail

Definition: Travail

Travail

Noun

Verb

Synonyms: Travail

Synonyms within Context: Travail

Exertion

Production

Crosswords: Travail

Modern Usage: Travail

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Travail

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: Travail

Non-Fiction Usage: Travail

Usage Frequency: Travail

Expressions: Travail

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Travail

Modern Translation: Travail

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Ancestral Language Translations: Travail

Bible Trace: Travail

Matched Bible Translations: Travail

Derivations & Misspellings: Travail

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Travail"

Anagrams: Travail

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Travail

54 72 61 76 61 69 6C

- .-. .- ...- .- .. .-..

01010100 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100001 01101001 01101100

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#118 &#97 &#105 &#108

0054 0072 0061 0076 0061 0069 006C

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