tropa

Borrowed from Spanish tropa.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

tropa f (plural tropes)

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

• “tropa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tropa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔpa/
• Rhymes: -ɔpa

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

• atropelar
• tropel

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tropa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tropa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tropa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Originally card game slang, meaning “exceeding 21 points” in the blackjack family of games, in which the goal is to collect cards withoug going over 21 points. Probably borrowed from Italian troppo (“too much”)^[1] (possibly via Serbo-Croatian tropa),^[2] from Vulgar Latin *troppus, from Late Latin troppus, from Frankish *þorp (“cluster, agglomeration; collection of houses, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). First attested in 1881.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: tro‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

tropa (comparative tropább, superlative legtropább)

1. (informal, of a person) tired, exhausted; in bad shape

   Synonyms: fáradt, kimerült

2. (informal) in poor condition, worn out, damaged

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tropa f (plural tropas)

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Borrowed from French troupe. Doublet of trupe.

• Hyphenation: tro‧pa

tropa f (plural tropas)

1. military service
2. (in the plural) troop (military forces)
3. (Brazil, collective) group of pack animals

• tropeiro

tropa

1. inflection of tropar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tropa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tropa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tropa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

tropa

1. Alternative form of trop

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tropa

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Borrowed from French troupe.

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

tropa f (plural tropas)

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

• “tropa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Spanish tropa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾopa/
• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: tro‧pa

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)

• trapo