trol

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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɔl/

trol m (plural trols)

1. troll (fantastic being)
2. (Internet) troll
3. (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”.

• trolejar

• “trol”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

• IPA^(key): /trɔl/

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• Hyphenation: trol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Borrowed from Norwegian troll or Swedish troll. Doublet of drol (“mythological giant”) and etymology 2.

trol m (plural trollen, diminutive trolletje n)

1. (folklore) troll (mythological creature)

From English troll. Doublet of drol (“mythological giant”) and etymology 1.

trol m (plural trollen, diminutive trolletje n)

1. troll (person who provokes others)

• trollen

Borrowed from English troll.[1][2]

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

1. Alternative form of troll

Borrowed from English trawl.[1]

trol m (plural tróis)

1. trawl

Borrowed from French troll.

trol m (plural troli)

1. troll

From Norwegian, Danish or Swedish troll.

• IPA^(key): /trôːl/

trȏl m (Cyrillic spelling тро̑л)

1. 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!

• “trol” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• troll

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾol/ [ˈt̪ɾol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: trol

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

trol m (plural troles)

1. (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, […]

From English troll.

trol m (plural troles)

1. (Internet) troll (a person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption)

• trolear
• troleo m
• troleada f

• “trol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014