troacă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• troc
• trocă
• троакэ (troacă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

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)

1. trough (long container for feeding animals, especially pigs)
2. (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.

3. wooden tub (wide, flat-bottomed vessel)
4. (regional, by extension) wooden vessel
5. wooden flour bin of a mill
6. (regional) shell of a turtle
7. (western Transylvania, Maramureș) matchbox
8. (regional) calabash gourd

Declension

Declension of troacă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) troacă	troaca	(niște) troace	troacele
genitive/dative	(unei) troace	troacei	(unor) troace	troacelor
vocative	troacă, troaco		troacelor

Further reading

• troacă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1983), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 11, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 639–640