# tropa
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tropa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈtɾo.pə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈtɾɔ.pə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɾɔ.pa]

### Noun

tropa f (plural tropes)
* (military) army, troop
* (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, 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.

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾɔpa/ [ˈt̪ɾɔ.pɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔpa

### Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)
* troop, crowd
* (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 estimato 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
* 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”) (possibly via Serbo-Croatian tropa), 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtropɒ]
* Hyphenation: tro‧pa
* Rhymes: -pɒ

### Adjective

tropa (comparative tropább, superlative legtropább)
* (informal, of a person) tired, exhausted; in bad shape
    Synonyms: fáradt, kimerült
* (informal) in poor condition, worn out, damaged

#### Derived terms

* tropán
* tropára

### References

* 1 2 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.
* ↑ 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)
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## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French troupe. Doublet of trupe.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾɔ.pɐ/
* Hyphenation: tro‧pa

#### Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)
* military service
* (in the plural) troop (military forces)
* (Brazil, collective) group of pack animals

##### Derived terms

* tropeiro

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tropa
* inflection of tropar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** 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, 2003–2025
* “tropa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Interjection

tropa
* Alternative form of trop

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French troupe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾopa/ [ˈt̪ɾo.pa]
* Rhymes: -opa
* Syllabification: tro‧pa

### Noun

tropa f (plural tropas)
* troop, crowd
* (military) army, troop
* (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: /ˈtɾopa/ [ˈt̪ɾoː.pɐ]
* Rhymes: -opa
* Syllabification: tro‧pa

### Noun

tropa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓᜉ)
* (colloquial) group of friends
    Synonyms: barkada, dabarkads, tropatuts
* (military) troop
* group; band
    Synonyms: pangkat, grupo, pangkatin
* herd; flock
    Synonym: kawan
* gang
* (music) troupe (of singers)

#### Derived terms

* katropa
* magkatropa
* magtotropa
* magtropa
* tropatuts

### Anagrams

* trapo