Troop in Different Languages
Discover 'Troop' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Troop
Afrikaans troep | ||
Albanian trupë | ||
Amharic ጭፍሮች | ||
Arabic القوات | ||
Armenian զորք | ||
Assamese ট্ৰুপ | ||
Aymara tropa satawa | ||
Azerbaijani qoşun | ||
Bambara sɔrɔdasikulu | ||
Basque tropa | ||
Belarusian войска | ||
Bengali সৈন্যবাহিনী | ||
Bhojpuri ट्रूप के बा | ||
Bosnian trupa | ||
Bulgarian отряд | ||
Catalan tropa | ||
Cebuano tropa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 部队 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 部隊 | ||
Corsican truppa | ||
Croatian čete | ||
Czech oddíl | ||
Danish tropp | ||
Dhivehi ޓްރޫޕް އެވެ | ||
Dogri ट्रूप | ||
Dutch troep | ||
English troop | ||
Esperanto trupo | ||
Estonian väeosa | ||
Ewe asrafoha | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tropa | ||
Finnish joukko | ||
French troupe | ||
Frisian troep | ||
Galician tropa | ||
Georgian ჯარი | ||
German trupp | ||
Greek ομάδα | ||
Guarani tropa rehegua | ||
Gujarati સૈન્ય | ||
Haitian Creole twoup | ||
Hausa rundunar soja | ||
Hawaiian pūʻali | ||
Hebrew גְדוּד | ||
Hindi सेना | ||
Hmong ib pab tub rog | ||
Hungarian csapat | ||
Icelandic sveit | ||
Igbo ìgwè | ||
Ilocano tropa | ||
Indonesian pasukan | ||
Irish trúpa | ||
Italian truppe | ||
Japanese 軍隊 | ||
Javanese pasukan | ||
Kannada ಸೈನ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh әскер | ||
Khmer កងទ័ព | ||
Kinyarwanda ingabo | ||
Konkani सैन्याचो पंगड | ||
Korean 군대 | ||
Krio troop we dɛn kɔl troop | ||
Kurdish leşker | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەرباز | ||
Kyrgyz аскер | ||
Lao ກອງທັບ | ||
Latin latrunculos hos, | ||
Latvian karaspēks | ||
Lingala troupe ya basoda | ||
Lithuanian kariuomenė | ||
Luganda eggye | ||
Luxembourgish trupp | ||
Macedonian војска | ||
Maithili ट्रूप | ||
Malagasy toko | ||
Malay tentera | ||
Malayalam സൈന്യം | ||
Maltese truppi | ||
Maori hoia | ||
Marathi दल | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇ꯭ꯔꯨꯞ ꯑꯃꯅꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo sipai pawl a ni | ||
Mongolian цэрэг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တပ်တွေ | ||
Nepali सेना | ||
Norwegian tropp | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) gulu lankhondo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସ op ନ୍ୟବାହିନୀ | ||
Oromo loltoota waraanaa | ||
Pashto سرتیري | ||
Persian گروه | ||
Polish stado | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tropa | ||
Punjabi ਫੌਜ | ||
Quechua tropa | ||
Romanian trupe | ||
Russian отряд | ||
Samoan 'au | ||
Sanskrit दलम् | ||
Scots Gaelic trup | ||
Sepedi sehlopha sa madira | ||
Serbian трупа | ||
Sesotho lebotho | ||
Shona boka | ||
Sindhi فوج | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) භට පිරිස් | ||
Slovak oddiel | ||
Slovenian četa | ||
Somali ciidan | ||
Spanish tropa | ||
Sundanese pasukan | ||
Swahili kikosi | ||
Swedish trupp | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tropa | ||
Tajik сарбоз | ||
Tamil படை | ||
Tatar гаскәр | ||
Telugu దళం | ||
Thai กองทหาร | ||
Tigrinya ሰራዊት። | ||
Tsonga vuthu ra masocha | ||
Turkish birlik | ||
Turkmen goşun | ||
Twi (Akan) asraafo dɔm | ||
Ukrainian війська | ||
Urdu فوجوں | ||
Uyghur قوشۇن | ||
Uzbek qo'shin | ||
Vietnamese đoàn quân | ||
Welsh milwyr | ||
Xhosa umkhosi | ||
Yiddish טרופּע | ||
Yoruba ogun | ||
Zulu ibutho |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "troep" also has the alternate meaning of "confusion". |
| Albanian | The word "trupë" is derived from the Proto-Albanian word "trupë" meaning "multitude, crowd, group" and is related to the Albanian word "trup" meaning "body, trunk". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, "ጭፍሮች" can also refer to "herds of cattle" or "groups of people". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "القوات" (al-quwwat) is a plural of "القوة" (al-quwwah), which can mean "force", "power", "energy", and in certain contexts "military force". |
| Armenian | "Զորք" (troop) derives from the Persian word "zōr" (strength) or the Mongolian word "zor" (army). |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "qoşun" is a derivative of the Old Turkish word "qushun", meaning "bird migration." |
| Basque | Basque "tropa" may be a loanword from Spanish of pre-Indo-European origin, possibly related to Sanskrit "sr" (go). |
| Belarusian | "Войска" derives from the Old East Slavic word "воъ" (war) and has the alternate meaning of "army" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "সৈন্যবাহিনী" is derived from the Sanskrit words "সৈন্য" (soldier) and "বাহিনী" (army). |
| Bosnian | The word "trupa" in Bosnian also means "corpse" or "cadaver". |
| Bulgarian | The word "отряд" in Bulgarian can also mean "order" (biological classification) or "group" (of people or animals). |
| Catalan | "Tropa" comes from Old French "tropel" (a crowd, troupe of singers or actors, troop of soldiers), which comes from Latin "tropus" (a figure of speech, trope), which comes from Greek "trόpos" (turn, way, direction, manner), which comes from Proto-Indo-European "*trep-" (to turn, to direct) |
| Cebuano | "Tropa" can also mean "gang" or "group of friends" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 部队 in Chinese can also refer to a military unit, or a group of people working together for a common purpose. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "部隊" (bu4dui4) also means a department in a company or institution. |
| Corsican | Corsican truppa derives from the Tuscan truppa, which derives from the Old Italian truppa (< Latin turba tumult) and means 'band, crowd'. |
| Croatian | The word 'čete' can also refer to the 'four' or 'gang of four' in certain card games. |
| Czech | The Czech word "oddíl" can also mean "a chapter of a book" or "a unit of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia". |
| Danish | The word "tropp" in Danish can also mean "bunch" or "crowd". |
| Dutch | The word "troep" in Dutch can also mean a group of people who are disorganized or misbehaving, whereas in English "troop" typically refers to a military unit. |
| Esperanto | The word "trupo" in Esperanto is derived from the French word "troupe", meaning "group of people". |
| Estonian | The word "väeosa" in Estonian can also refer to a military unit or formation. |
| Finnish | The word "joukko" also means "bunch", "group", or "set". |
| French | The word "troupe" in French can also mean "a group of actors or performers" |
| Frisian | In Frisian, the word "troep" can also refer to a group of people or animals, or a collection of things. |
| Galician | The Galician word "tropa" can also mean "group" or "mob". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word ჯარი (troop) shares the same root with the word ჯარა (chain), alluding to the hierarchical organization of the military. |
| German | The German word "Trupp" can also refer to a group of workers performing a specific task in a factory. |
| Greek | "Ομάδα" also means "team," "class," or "group" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The word "સૈન્ય" can also refer to a group of people who are working together to achieve a common goal. |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'twoup' in Haitian Creole also means 'group' or 'gathering'. |
| Hausa | The word "rundunar soja" can also refer to a military camp or barracks. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "pūʻali" can also refer to a group of stars, a constellation, or a plant cluster. |
| Hebrew | The root word גְד, present also in גָדֵל (grow), signifies a mass or multitude |
| Hindi | The word "सेना" in Hindi can also refer to a group of armed men or an army. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "ib pab tub rog" can also refer to a group of people working together, such as a work team. |
| Hungarian | The word "csapat" is also used to refer to a team of people working together, such as a sports team or a work team. |
| Icelandic | The word 'sveit' in Icelandic can also refer to a 'parish' or a 'district'. |
| Igbo | As a title, ìgwè has also been translated as "chief" or "war chief." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "pasukan" is derived from the Sanskrit word "pashu", meaning "cattle" or "domestic animal". |
| Irish | Irish "trúpa" is derived from the Old Irish word "trúip" meaning "band" or "company" and it can also refer to a group of actors or performers. |
| Italian | The word "truppe" can also mean "theatre company" or "band of musicians, comedians, etc." in Italian. |
| Japanese | '軍隊' also means 'army' in Japanese, as opposed to '海軍' (navy) and '空軍' (air force). |
| Javanese | "Pasukan" can also refer to a group or gathering of non-military entities, such as dancers, students, or animals. |
| Kannada | The word "ಸೈನ್ಯ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sena", which also means "army". |
| Kazakh | The word "әскер" may also refer to an "army" or "force". |
| Khmer | The word "កងទ័ព" can also mean "army" or "military force". |
| Korean | The word 군대 (군 dae) originally referred to a "group of soldiers" or an "army", but it has also come to mean "troops" or "armed forces". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "leşker" is derived from the Persian word "laškar", ultimately from the Sanskrit word "lakṣa", meaning "goal". The word is also used to denote a large group of armed men or a military force. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "аскер" can also refer to soldiers, military, or forces. |
| Lao | The Lao word for "troop" (ກອງທັບ) is derived from the Sanskrit word "gaṇa" meaning "band, troop, or army." |
| Latin | "Latrunculos" also means "robbers" or "bandits." |
| Latvian | The word "karaspēks" is derived from the German word "Kartoffelstärke", meaning "potato starch", as during a 16th century famine it was often added to bread to bulk it out. |
| Lithuanian | "Kariuomenė" is also used in a transferred sense for a group of people or things that move or act together |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word 'Trupp' can also refer to a group of friends or acquaintances beyond the context of a military or law enforcement unit. |
| Macedonian | The word "војска" in Macedonian is derived from the Turkic word "ordu" and can also mean "army". |
| Malagasy | The word "toko" in Malagasy can also mean "to cut" or "to sharpen." |
| Malay | "Tentera" is not derived from "tenteram" (peaceful) but from Tamil "tandai" (army). |
| Malayalam | Derived from Sanskrit 'sēnā', it originally meant a 'female companion of a king'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "truppi" likely originates from the Italian word "truppa" with the same meaning, or from the English word "troops". |
| Maori | The word 'hoia' in Maori can also be used as a noun to refer to a group of people or a gathering. |
| Marathi | The word "دال" ('dāl') in Marathi also refers to a mathematical term for "ten" and is the numerical representation for the number 1 in Devanagari. |
| Mongolian | The word "цэрэг" in Mongolian can also refer to weapons, armament or warfare. |
| Nepali | The word 'सेना' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'sen' (army) and is related to the Latin word 'senex' (old) and the Greek word 'senior' (elder). |
| Norwegian | Tropp can also mean a group of animals or plants that act together. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | This word has the same etymology as the word 'gulu', which refers to a group of male warriors. |
| Pashto | "سرتیري" originates from the Persian word "سرباز" meaning "warrior", and can also refer to a single soldier rather than a group. |
| Persian | In Persian, the word "گروه" ("troop") also means "group" or "team". |
| Polish | The word "stado" can also refer to a herd or a flock. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "tropa" in Portuguese has its cognate in the Latin word "turba", which means "a crowd, throng." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਫੌਜ" (fauj) in Punjabi has a Persian origin, and also means "army" or "force" in a general sense. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "trupe" has an additional theatrical meaning, referring to a troupe of performers. |
| Russian | Its root word is 'otdir', meaning 'to withdraw, fall away', and it is also used to refer to a group of animals or birds, or a section of a military unit. |
| Samoan | "Au" can also mean "family" or "clan" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "trup" (troop) also means "a company of performers" or "a group of people traveling together". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "трупа" ("troop") also refers to a theatre or opera company and, by extension, to any artistic collective. |
| Sesotho | It is also a name given to a particular clan of the Basotho nation. |
| Shona | The Shona word "boka" also means "gathering". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "fوج" also denotes an assembly or collection. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word භට පිරිස්, also means a 'group of soldiers' and is derived from the Sanskrit word 'bhata', meaning 'soldier' |
| Slovak | In addition to being a troop, "oddiel" also refers to a unit of the Communist Youth Union or Pioneer organization in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. |
| Slovenian | Četa originates from the Proto-Slavic language and is related to the word _četa_ |
| Somali | "Ciidan" is related to the Arabic word "jund", which refers to an expedition or army sent out by an authority. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "tropa" can also refer to a group of people who share a common goal or activity, similar to the English word "crew". |
| Sundanese | "Pasukan" can also mean "group of people" or "team" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word "kikosi" in Swahili is derived from the Arabic word "quwwa", which means "power" or "force". |
| Swedish | "Trupp" can also mean "group" or "team" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "tropa" can also refer to a group of close friends or companions. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "сарбоз" can also refer to a "soldier" or a "warrior." |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "படை" (padai) can also refer to "creation", "power", or "energy" in certain contexts. |
| Telugu | The word "దళం" (dalham) can also mean "a group of people who work together". |
| Thai | The word "กองทหาร" can also mean "army" or "military force". |
| Turkish | Birlik also means unity, solidarity or association in Turkish |
| Ukrainian | The word "війська" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "voiska", meaning both "troop" and "army". |
| Urdu | فوجوں is also a term used to refer to a group of people who are gathered for a specific purpose or event. |
| Uzbek | "Qo'shin" is derived from the Mongolic word "qojun" and is also used to refer to the army of the Emir of Bukhara. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "đoàn quân" can also colloquially refer to a group of people working on a common project. |
| Welsh | The word "milwyr" also means "thousand" in Welsh, reflecting the traditional size of a military unit. |
| Xhosa | The word "umkhosi" can also refer to traditional Xhosa ceremonies |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "טרופּע" can also mean a group of actors or a theater company. |
| Yoruba | The word "ogun" also means "war" or "battle" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ibutho" literally means "a group of young men who are herded together for military training." |
| English | In addition to its military definition, "troop" can also refer to a group of actors or performers. |