troacă

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Trok, dialectal variant of Trog. First attested in c. 1650.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtro̯a.kə/
  • Rhymes: -akə
  • Hyphenation: troa‧că

Noun

troacă f (plural troci or troace)

  1. trough (long container for feeding animals, especially pigs)
  2. (informal, figurative, in the plural) junk, a variety of old discarded items
    • 1973, D. Gherguț, E. Georgescu, “O vedere din Bucegi [A view from Bucegi]”, in Planul „Furtuna“ (Sfinx; 14), Bucharest: Editura Militară, page 77:
      Aruncînd o privire îndărăt, fata se mistui pe poarta care dădea într-o curte plină cu tot felul de troace.
      Glancing back, the girl disappeared into the gate that led to a yard filled with all manner of junk.
  3. wooden tub (wide, flat-bottomed vessel)
  4. (regional, by extension) wooden vessel
  5. wooden flour bin of a mill
  6. (regional) shell of a turtle
  7. (western Transylvania, Maramureș) matchbox
  8. (regional) calabash gourd

Declension

Declension of troacă
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative troacă troaca troace troacele
genitive-dative troace troacei troace troacelor
vocative troacă, troaco troacelor

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