Trab
German, noun
Trab is spelled T-R-A-B (4 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 25,090th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trab is a German masculine noun meaning “trot (horse gait)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, trab is a different word: “singular imperative of traben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mittelschnelle Gangart vierbeiniger Tiere, bei der jeweils zwei diagonal gegenüberliegende Beine gleichzeitig…”.
What does Trab mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrot (horse gait)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of traben
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of traben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mittelschnelle Gangart vierbeiniger Tiere, bei der jeweils zwei diagonal gegenüberliegende Beine gleichzeitig vorgesetzt werden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Trab
- Trabes genitive
- Trabs genitive
- Trabe dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Trab
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Trab in German?
Trab appears 1.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).