Travail

Noun

 * 1)  Work, especially when arduous or painful; excessive labor, suffering.
 * 2) * 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:
 * He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail.
 * 1) Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
 * 2)  An act of working; labor, labour.
 * 3)  The eclipse of a celestial object.

Verb

 * 1) To toil.
 * 2) To go through the labor of childbirth.
 * 3) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XIV:
 * A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.

Thesaurus
accouchement, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, calve, cast, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, dig, dirty work, donkeywork, drop, drudge, drudgery, employment, fag, farrow, fatigue, fawn, foal, genesis, give birth, giving birth, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hatching, have, have a baby, have young, having a baby, industry, kitten, labor, lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, manual labor, moil, multiparity, nascency, nativity, pains, parturition, peg, peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, pup, rat race, scut work, slavery, slog, spadework, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, sweat, task, the Nativity, the stork, throw, tiresome work, toil, treadmill, wade through, whelp, work, work away, yean

Etymology
From travail:.

Noun



 * : 1.hard labeur, 2.werkarbeid,3.barensweeën, 4. beproeving, smart,zielskwelling

Verb

 * : 1. Hard zwoegen, slaven, 2.in barensnood verkeren

Noun

 * 1) suffering, torment

Noun

 * 1) work; labor
 * 2) job

Etymology
travail: from tripalium:

Synonyms

 * boulot, taf, turbin, job

Derived terms

 * travailler
 * travailleur
 * travailliste
 * travail d'arabe

Noun

 * 1) suffering, torment

Descendants

 * French: