trapik

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English traffic, from Middle French trafique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from Italian trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *transfricare (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تفريق‎ (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tra‧pik

Noun

trapik

  1. traffic jam
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