Troy

See also: troy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɔɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

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Etymology 1

From Latin Troia, from Ancient Greek Τροία (Troía).

Proper noun

Troy

1. (historical) An ancient city in what is now northwestern Turkey.
2. A city, the county seat of Pike County, Alabama, United States.
3. A small city, the county seat of Doniphan County, Kansas, United States.
4. A city in Michigan.
5. A city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.
6. A city, the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York, United States.
7. A town, the county seat of Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States.

Synonyms

• Ilium

Derived terms

• Trojan
• Trojan horse
• Troyish

Translations

an ancient city

• Afrikaans: Troje
• Albanian: Troja f
• Amharic: ትሮያ f (təroya)
• Aragonese: Troya f
• Armenian: Տրոյա (hy) (Troya)
• Asturian: Troya f
• Azerbaijani: Troya
• Bashkir: Троя (Troya)
• Basque: Troia
• Belarusian: Троя f (Trója)
• Bengali: ট্রয় (ṭroẏ)
• Breton: Troia f
• Bulgarian: Троя f (Troja)
• Burmese: ထရွိုင်းမြို့ (hta.rwuing:mrui.)
• Catalan: Troia f
• Chechen: Тарша (Tarša)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 特洛伊 (dak⁶ lok⁶ ji¹)

  Mandarin: 特洛伊 (zh) (Tèluòyī)

• Czech: Trója (cs) f
• Danish: Troja
• Dutch: Troje (nl) n
• Esperanto: Trojo
• Estonian: Trooja
• Finnish: Troija (fi)
• French: Troie (fr) f
• Friulian: Troie f
• Galician: Troia f
• Georgian: ტროა (ṭroa)
• German: Troja (de) n, Troia (de) n
• Greek: Τροία (el) f (Troía)

  Ancient: Τροία (Troía), Ἴλιον n (Ílion), Ἴλιος f (Ílios)

• Hindi: त्राय (trāy), ट्रॉय (ṭrŏy)
• Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭 (Wilusa), 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 (Truwisa)
• Hungarian: Trója (hu)
• Icelandic: Trója f, Trójuborg f
• Ido: Troya (io)
• Indonesian: Troya
• Interlingua: Troia
• Irish: an Traí f
• Italian: Troia f
• Jamaican Creole: Chrai
• Japanese: トロイ (Toroi)
• Korean: 트로이 (Teuroi)
• Kurdish: ,
• Kyrgyz: Троя (Troya)
• Latin: Illion n, Teucria f, Troia (la) f
• Latvian: Troja f
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• Limburgish: Troje n
• Lithuanian: Troja f
• Luxembourgish: Troja n
• Macedonian: Троја f (Troja)
• Malayalam: ട്രോയ് (ṭrōyŭ)
• Maltese: Trojja f
• Marathi: ट्रॉय n (ṭrŏy)
• Mingrelian: ტროა (ṭroa)
• Nepali: ट्रोय (ṭroya)
• Norman: Trouaie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Troja n

  Nynorsk: Troja n

• Occitan: Tròia f
• Old English: Trōia f
• Picard: Troée f
• Polish: Troja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Troia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਟਰੌਏ (ṭarauē)
• Quechua: Troya
• Rhine Franconian: Troja
• Romanian: Troia f
• Romansch: Troja f
• Russian: Тро́я (ru) f (Trója)
• Scottish Gaelic: Tròidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тро́ја f

  Roman: Trója (sh) f

• Sicilian: Troia f
• Sinhalese: ට්‍රෝයි (ṭrōyi)
• Slovak: Trója f
• Slovene: Troja (sl) f
• Spanish: Troya (es) f
• Swahili: Troia
• Swedish: Troja (sv) n
• Tagalog: Troya
• Tamil: திராய் (ta) (tirāy)
• Thai: ทรอย (troi)
• Turkish: Troya (tr), Truva (tr)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Троя (Troya)

  Roman: Troya

• Venetian: Troia f
• Waray-Waray: Troya
• Welsh: Caerdroea f
• West Flemish: Troje
• West Frisian: Troaje n
• Yiddish: טרויא f (troya)
• Zazaki: Troya

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Troyes.

Proper noun

Troy

1. derived from the city Troyes in France.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, but today associated with the classical city.

Anagrams

• Tory, ryot, tory, tyro