travelling

English

Alternative forms

• traveling (US)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæv.lɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæv.ə.lɪŋ/

Verb

travelling

1. present participle and gerund of travel

Noun

travelling (countable and uncountable, plural travellings)

1. The act of one who travels; a journey.
   • 1956 May, “London Transport Diesel-Electric Cranes”, in Railway Magazine, page 337:

     Hoisting, derricking, slewing, and travelling are by means of independent 600-volt motors through reduction gearing.

Translations

action of travelling

• Bulgarian: пътуване (bg) n (pătuvane)
• Czech: cestování (cs) n
• Esperanto: vojaĝado
• Finnish: matkustaminen (fi)
• French: travelling (fr), voyageant (fr)
• Georgian: მოგზაურობა (mogzauroba)
• Hungarian: utazás (hu)
• Ingrian: kulkemus
• Irish: trabhléireacht f, traibhleáil f, taisteal m
• Italian: carrellata (it) f
• Mongolian: аялал (mn) (ajalal)
• Polish: podróżowanie (pl) n
• Russian: путеше́ствие (ru) n (putešéstvije)
• Scottish Gaelic: siubhal m
• Spanish: travelín (es) m
• Swedish: resande (sv) n
• Turkish: seyahat etme
• Ukrainian: подорожува́ння n (podorožuvánnja)

Adjective

travelling (not comparable)

1. That travels (with one).

   a travelling companion

2. That travels habitually.

   a travelling funfair

Derived terms

• time-travelling
• travelling bag
• travelling carriage
• travelling crane
• travelling dress
• travelling post office
• travelling salesman
• travelling-salesman problem
• travelling salesman problem
• travelling wave
• travelling wave tube
• travelling-wave tube
• untravelling

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trávelin, from French travelling, and this a pseudo-anglicism, derived from English travel +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trabeʎin/ [t̪ra.β̞e.ʎĩn]
• Rhymes: -eʎin, -in
• Hyphenation: tra‧ve‧lling

Noun

travelling inan

1. (cinematography) dolly, camera dolly (a specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted)

Declension

Declension of travelling (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	travelling	travellinga	travellingak	travellingok
ergative	travellingek	travellingak	travellingek	travellingok
dative	travellingi	travellingari	travellingei	travellingoi
genitive	travellingen	travellingaren	travellingen	travellingon
comitative	travellingekin	travellingarekin	travellingekin	travellingokin
causative	travellingengatik	travellingarengatik	travellingengatik	travellingongatik
benefactive	travellingentzat	travellingarentzat	travellingentzat	travellingontzat
instrumental	travellingez	travellingaz	travellingez	travellingotaz
inessive	travellingetan	travellingean	travellingetan	travellingotan
locative	travellingetako	travellingeko	travellingetako	travellingotako
allative	travellingetara	travellingera	travellingetara	travellingotara
terminative	travellingetaraino	travellingeraino	travellingetaraino	travellingotaraino
directive	travellingetarantz	travellingerantz	travellingetarantz	travellingotarantz
destinative	travellingetarako	travellingerako	travellingetarako	travellingotarako
ablative	travellingetatik	travellingetik	travellingetatik	travellingotatik
partitive	travellingik	—	—	—
prolative	travellingtzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “travelling”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from English travel +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vliŋ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

travelling m (plural travellings)

1. (cinematography) dolly, camera dolly (a specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted)
2. (cinematography) travelling shot

Further reading

• “travelling”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French travelling, and this a pseudo-anglicism, derived from English travel +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾabelin/ [ˈt̪ɾa.β̞e.lĩn]
• Rhymes: -abelin
• Syllabification: tra‧ve‧lling

Noun

travelling m (plural travellings)

1. alternative form of trávelin

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “travelling”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
• “travelling”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN