tropa

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tropa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾo.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɾɔ.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾɔ.pa]

Noun

tropa f (plural tropes)

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

References

• “tropa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tropa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔpa/ [ˈt̪ɾɔ.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔpa

Noun

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

Related terms

• atropelar
• tropel

References

• 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

Hungarian

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tropa	tropák
accusative	tropát	tropákat
dative	tropának	tropáknak
instrumental	tropával	tropákkal
causal-final	tropáért	tropákért
translative	tropává	tropákká
terminative	tropáig	tropákig
essive-formal	tropaként	tropákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tropában	tropákban
superessive	tropán	tropákon
adessive	tropánál	tropáknál
illative	tropába	tropákba
sublative	tropára	tropákra
allative	tropához	tropákhoz
elative	tropából	tropákból
delative	tropáról	tropákról
ablative	tropától	tropáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tropáé	tropáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tropáéi	tropákéi

Derived terms

• tropán
• tropára

 

References

1. tropa in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
2. tropa in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French troupe. Doublet of trupe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔ.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: tro‧pa

Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

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

Derived terms

• tropeiro

Etymology 2

Verb

tropa

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

Further reading

• “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, 2003–2024
• “tropa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Interjection

tropa

1. Alternative form of trop

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

tropa

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from French troupe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)

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

Derived terms

• atropar
• portatropas
• tropel
• tropero
• tropilla

 

Further reading

• “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

Anagrams

• optar
• parto
• porta
• potar
• topar
• trapo

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tropa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾopa/ [ˈt̪ɾoː.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: tro‧pa

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• katropa
• magkatropa
• magtotropa
• magtropa
• tropatuts

 

Anagrams

• trapo