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) trough (long container for feeding animals, especially pigs) (informal, figurative, in the plural) junk, a variety of old discarded items wooden tub (wide, flat-bottomed vessel) (regional, by extension) wooden vessel wooden flour bin of a mill (regional) shell of a turtle (western Transylvania, Maramureș) matchbox (regional) calabash gourd ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “troacă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026 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