trol

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trɔl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English troll.[1][2]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English trawl.[1]

Noun

trol m (plural tróis)

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 trol”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ trol”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French troll.

Noun

trol m (plural troli)

  1. troll

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative trol trolul troli trolii
genitive-dative trol trolului troli trolilor
vocative trolule trolilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Norwegian, Danish or Swedish troll.

Pronunciation

Noun

trȏl m (Cyrillic spelling тро̑л)

  1. troll
    mislim da je trol izašao iz tamniceI 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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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:
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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English troll (cart).

Noun

trol f (plural troliau or trolau, diminutive trolen or trolyn)

  1. (North Wales) cart (two-wheeled vehicle)
    Synonyms: cart, cert
  2. trolley, dolly
    Synonyms: troli, trolen
  3. cylinder, roller
    Synonyms: trolig, trolyn, silindr, rholyn
  4. wheel
    Synonyms: olwyn, rhod

Derived terms

  • (four-wheeled vehicle) men, wagen (wagon)

Mutation

Mutated forms of trol
radical soft nasal aspirate
trol drol nhrol throl

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “trol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies