tren

See also: trén, trèn, trên, trển, třen, and třeň

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

tren (plural trens)

1. (bodybuilding slang) clipping of trenbolone

Anagrams

• Rent, rent, tern

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Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. train

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “tren”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Noun

tren m (plural trenes)

1. (transport, railway) train

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Basque

Etymology

From French train

Noun

tren inan

1. (transport, railway) train

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Catalan

Etymology

From French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾɛn]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɾən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾen]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. (transport, railway) train

Further reading

• “tren” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tren”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tren” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tren” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tren, from French train.

Noun

tren

1. train. locomotive

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Central Melanau

Etymology

From English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō.

Noun

tren

1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

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Galician

Etymology 1

13th century. From Old French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛŋ/

• (Audio):

  (file)

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. (nautical) fishing tackle; leadline
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

     a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in panwn for 600 mor.

Etymology 2

19th century. Ultimately from French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛŋ/

• (Audio):

  (file)

Noun

tren m (plural trens)

1. a connected sequence of things (in time or space)

   Synonyms: serie, secuencia

   1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

Derived terms

• tren de ondas (“wavetrain”)

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tren”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tren”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Indonesian

Etymology

From English trend, from Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve", from Old English trendan "to roll about, turn, revolve" from Proto-Germanic *trandijaną (“to revolve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛn/
• Hyphenation: trèn

Noun

trèn (first-person possessive trenku, second-person possessive trenmu, third-person possessive trennya)

1. trend: an inclination in a particular direction; a tendency.

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay tren.

Affixed terms

• mengetren

 

Further reading

• “tren” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tren/
• Rhymes: -en

Noun

tren (Jawi spelling ترين, plural tren-tren, informal 1st possessive trenku, 2nd possessive trenmu, 3rd possessive trennya)

1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian tren.

Synonyms

• kereta api / کريتا اڤي

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Middle English

Adjective

tren

1. Alternative form of treen

Noun

tren pl

1. Alternative form of treen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tren

1. imperative of trene

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tren

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of trena

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛŋ/

Noun

tren m (plural tren)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɛn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: tren

Etymology 1

From French traîne.

Noun

tren m inan

1. train (part of gown that is drawn along)

Etymology 2

From Latin thrēnus, from Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos).

Noun

tren m inan

1. (poetry) dirge, lamentation (sorrowful work of poetry)

Declension

Declension of tren

	singular	plural
nominative	tren	treny
genitive	trenu	trenów
dative	trenowi	trenom
accusative	tren	treny
instrumental	trenem	trenami
locative	trenie	trenach
vocative	trenie	treny

Further reading

• tren in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Template:R:PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtren/

Noun

tren n (plural trenuri)

1. (transport, railway) train

Declension

Declension of tren

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tren	trenul	(niște) trenuri	trenurile
genitive/dative	(unui) tren	trenului	(unor) trenuri	trenurilor
vocative	trenule		trenurilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trenъ, from earlier *trepnъ, related to treptati (“to blink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trên/

Noun

trȅn m (Cyrillic spelling тре̏н)

1. moment (brief amount of time)

Declension

Declension of tren

	singular	plural
nominative	trȅn	trenovi
genitive	trena	trȅnōvā
dative	trenu	trenovima
accusative	tren	trenove
vocative	trene	trenovi
locative	trenu	trenovima
instrumental	trenom	trenovima

Synonyms

• čȁs
• mȃh

Derived terms

• trenútak
• trȅnuti
• trȅnūtan

References

• “tren” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Spanish

Etymology

From French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾen/ [ˈt̪ɾẽn]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

Noun

tren m (plural trenes)

1. (transport, railway) train

Derived terms

• estar como un tren
• para parar un tren
• tren de aterrizaje
• tren de potencia
• tren interurbano
• tren ultraligero
• trencito

 

Descendants

• → Moroccan Arabic: تران (trān)
• → Tagalog: tren
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: treni̱
• → Yaqui: tréen

Further reading

• “tren”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from French train, through Spanish tren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɾɛn], [trɛn]

Noun

tren

1. (transport, railway) train

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ترن (tren), from French train.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾɛn/

Noun

tren (definite accusative treni, plural trenler)

1. (transport, railway) train

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tren
Definite accusative	treni
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tren	trenler
Definite accusative	treni	trenleri
Dative	trene	trenlere
Locative	trende	trenlerde
Ablative	trenden	trenlerden
Genitive	trenin	trenlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular trenim trenlerim 2nd singular trenin trenlerin 3rd singular treni trenleri 1st plural trenimiz trenlerimiz 2nd plural treniniz trenleriniz 3rd plural trenleri trenleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular trenimi trenlerimi 2nd singular trenini trenlerini 3rd singular trenini trenlerini 1st plural trenimizi trenlerimizi 2nd plural treninizi trenlerinizi 3rd plural trenlerini trenlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular trenime trenlerime 2nd singular trenine trenlerine 3rd singular trenine trenlerine 1st plural trenimize trenlerimize 2nd plural treninize trenlerinize 3rd plural trenlerine trenlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular trenimde trenlerimde 2nd singular treninde trenlerinde 3rd singular treninde trenlerinde 1st plural trenimizde trenlerimizde 2nd plural treninizde trenlerinizde 3rd plural trenlerinde trenlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular trenimden trenlerimden 2nd singular treninden trenlerinden 3rd singular treninden trenlerinden 1st plural trenimizden trenlerimizden 2nd plural treninizden trenlerinizden 3rd plural trenlerinden trenlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular trenimin trenlerimin 2nd singular treninin trenlerinin 3rd singular treninin trenlerinin 1st plural trenimizin trenlerimizin 2nd plural treninizin trenlerinizin 3rd plural trenlerinin trenlerinin

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian treno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛŋ/

Noun

tren m (plural treni)

1. (transport, railway) train

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾen/

Noun

tren (nominative plural trens)

1. (transport, railway) train

Declension

declension of tren

	singular	plural
nominative	tren	trens
genitive	trena	trenas
dative	trene	trenes
accusative	treni	trenis
vocative 1	o tren!	o trens!
predicative 2	trenu	trenus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Yola

Etymology

From Middle English tre, from Old English trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu.

Noun

tren

1. trees

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867