troacă
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Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- troc
- trocă
- троакэ (troacă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Trok, dialectal variant of Trog. First attested in c. 1650.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]troacă f (plural troci or troace)
- trough (long container for feeding animals, especially pigs)
- (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.
- wooden tub (wide, flat-bottomed vessel)
- (regional, by extension) wooden vessel
- wooden flour bin of a mill
- (regional) shell of a turtle
- (western Transylvania, Maramureș) matchbox
- (regional) calabash gourd
Declension
[edit]Declension of troacă
Further reading
[edit]- troacă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1983), Dicționarul Limbii Române[1], volume 11, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 639–640
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