trok

• troc

Borrowed from South Slavic, whence Serbo-Croatian otrȍk and Slovene otrȍk (“child, youngster”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *otròkъ.

trok m (plural troki, female equivalent troka)

1. child, youngster, guy, dude, bloke
   • 1886, Antonio Ive, “Biografia dell'Udína, dettata da lui stesso”, in L'antico dialetto di Veglia [Udina's biography, dictated by himself] (in Italian), page 136:

     Cun che jú jéra jáun de dikduát jéin, jú jái duot el prinsiáp de zar fúre de la mája cuósa, a spuás con certján tróki e tróke […].

     When I was eighteen years old, I started going out of my home with some guys and girls for fun […].

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

• IPA^(key): /trɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

Derived from trekken (“to pull; (air flow) to draft”).

trok m (plural trokken, diminutive trokje n or troksken n)

1. (Brabant) current of air, draft

   Synonyms: tocht, trek

   Zit ni zo in diejen trok, sebiet schaarde 'n valling oep!

   Don't sit in such a drafty place, soon you'll catch a cold!

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

trok

1. singular past indicative of trekken

• Het Vlaams woordenboek

• kort, krot

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tȏrkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *tоrkʷ-ós, from the root *terkʷ- (“to turn, spin”).

• IPA^(key): /trɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: trok

trok m inan (diminutive troczek)

1. strap

   Synonym: rzemień

2. (colloquial) ribbon, string

   Synonyms: sznurek, tasiemka

• trok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trok in Polish dictionaries at PWN