# trol
## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾɔl]

### Noun

trol m (plural trols)
* troll (fantastic being)
* (Internet) troll
* (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

* trolejar

### Further reading

* “trol”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* (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)
* troll (person who provokes others)

##### Derived terms

* trollen

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English troll.

#### Alternative forms

* trole, troll (unadapted form)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾɔw/ [ˈtɾɔʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾɔl/ [ˈtɾɔɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾɔl/ [ˈtɾɔɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾɔ.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔl, (Brazil) -ɔw
* Homophone: trole (Portugal)
* Hyphenation: trol

#### Noun

trol m or f by sense (plural tróis or troles)
* (fantasy, Norse mythology) troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges)
* (Internet) troll (person who provokes others and causes disruption)

##### Derived terms

* trolar

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English trawl.

#### Noun

trol m (plural tróis)
* trawl (long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it)

### References

* 1 2 “trol”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “trol”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French troll.

### Noun

trol m (plural troli)
* troll

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Norwegian, Danish or Swedish troll.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /trôːl/

### Noun

trȏl m (Cyrillic spelling тро̑л)
* troll
    mislim da je trol izašao iz tamnice ― I 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), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* troll

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾol/ [ˈt̪ɾol]
* Rhymes: -ol
* Syllabification: trol

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian troll and Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll.

#### Noun

trol m or f by sense (plural troles)
* (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

Borrowed from English troll.

#### Noun

trol m or f by sense (plural troles)
* (Internet) troll (a person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption)

##### Derived terms

* troleada f
* trolear
* troleo m

### Further reading

* “trol”, 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

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from English troll (“cart”).

### Noun

trol f (plural troliau or trolau, diminutive trolen or trolyn)
* (North Wales) cart (two-wheeled vehicle)
    Synonyms: cart, cert
* trolley, dolly
    Synonyms: troli, trolen
* cylinder, roller
    Synonyms: trolig, trolyn, silindr, rholyn
* wheel
    Synonyms: olwyn, rhod

#### Derived terms

* berfa drol (“wheelbarrow”)
* llond trol, llwyth trol (“cartload”)
* taflu'r drol (“to give up”, literally “to overturn the cart”)
* troi'r drol (“to cause an argument”, literally “to upset the (apple)cart”)

#### Related terms

* (four-wheeled vehicle) men, wagen (“wagon”)

#### Mutation

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