tropa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾo.pə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾo.pa/

Noun

tropa f (plural tropes)

1. troop, crowd
2. (military) army, troop

References

• “tropa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tropa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “tropa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tropa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɾɔpɐ]

Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

1. troop, crowd
2. (military) army, troop
   • 1603, Rosario Álvarez, edited by Ernesto González, Cartas a Conde de Gondomar:

     a meu yrmaõ Jeronimo frde de ponteuedra, vn alcalde que foy da bila mesma, passando as tropas dos soldados, lle a feyto vma senjustiça tocandolle na onrra, que he coussa para a cassa de meu pay de moita estima

     to my brother Xerónimo Fernández de Pontevedra, a later alderman of this same town while reviewing the soldiers' troops made him an injustice, touching him in his honor, which is a thing of great value for my father's house

3. herd

Related terms

• atropelar
• tropel

References

• “tropa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tropa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tropa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French troupe. Doublet of trupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔ.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: tro‧pa

Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

1. military service
2. (in the plural) troop (military forces)

Further reading

• “tropa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Interjection

tropa

1. Alternative form of trop

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French troupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾopa/ [ˈt̪ɾo.pa]
• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: tro‧pa

Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

1. troop, crowd
2. (military) army, troop
3. (Latin America) flock, herd

Derived terms

• atropar
• portatropas
• tropel
• tropero
• tropilla

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• optar
• parto
• porta
• potar
• topar
• trapo

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tropa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tro‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾopa/, [ˈtɾo.pɐ]

Noun

tropa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓᜉ)

1. (colloquial) group of friends

   Synonyms: barkada, dabarkads, tropatuts

2. (military) troop
3. group; band

   Synonyms: pangkat, grupo, pangkatin

4. herd; flock

   Synonym: kawan

5. gang
6. (music) troupe (of singers)

Derived terms

• katropa
• magkatropa
• magtotropa
• magtropa
• tropatuts