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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)
- 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
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