trol

Catalan

Etymology

From Swedish troll. The sense of "Internet troll" is a recent semantic loan from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

trol m (plural trols)

1. troll (fantastic being)
2. (Internet) troll
3. (Internet) an instance of trolling
   • 2016 September 8, Sergi Picazo, “Per què estem perdent Twitter en favor de la cultura de l’odi?”, in El Crític‎:

     A Mèxic, l’actual president Enrique Peña Nieto va ser acusat de crear trols anònims durant les darreres eleccions. L’escàndol es coneix com els “Peñabots”.

     In Mexico, the current president Enrique Peña Nieto was accused of creating anonymous troll accounts during the last elections. The scandal is known as the “Peñabots”.

Derived terms

• trolejar

Further reading

• “trol”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɔl/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: trol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian troll or Swedish troll. Doublet of drol (“mythological giant”) and etymology 2.

Noun

trol m (plural trollen, diminutive trolletje n)

1. (folklore) troll (mythological creature)

Etymology 2

From English troll. Doublet of drol (“mythological giant”) and etymology 1.

Noun

trol m (plural trollen, diminutive trolletje n)

1. troll (person who provokes others)

Derived terms

• trollen

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English troll.

Alternative forms

• trole, troll (unadapted form)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔl, (Brazil) -ɔw
• Homophone: trole (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: trol

Noun

trol m or f by sense (plural tróis or troles)

1. (fantasy, Norse mythology) troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges)
2. (Internet) troll (person who provokes others and causes disruption)

Derived terms

• trolar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English trawl.

Noun

trol m (plural tróis)

1. trawl (long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it)

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French troll.

Noun

trol m (plural troli)

1. troll

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Norwegian, Danish or Swedish troll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trôːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

trȏl m (Cyrillic spelling тро̑л)

1. troll

   mislim da je trol izašao iz tamnice ― I think the troll's left the dungeon

   hajde, nasm(ij)eši se, trolu mali! ― put a smile on that face, little troll!

Declension

References

• “trol” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Alternative forms

• troll

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾol/
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: trol

Etymology 1

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

trol

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from Norwegian troll and Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll.

Noun

trol m or f by sense (plural troles)

1. (fantasy) troll
   • 2017, Enrique Bernárdez, Mitología nórdica [Nordic mythology], Alianza editorial, →ISBN, page 44:

     […] los trols se conservaron en el folklore de los países nórdicos como seres sabios, malignos y peligrosos, […]

     the trolls were preserved in the folklore of Nordic countries as wise, evil and dangerous beings,

Etymology 2

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

trol (Internet)

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from English troll.

Noun

trol m or f by sense (plural troles)

1. (Internet) troll (a person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption)

Derived terms

Further reading

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