Troy

See also: troy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɔɪ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Etymology 1

From Latin Troia, from Ancient Greek Τροία (Troía).

Proper noun

Troy

1. (historical) An ancient city in what is now northwestern Turkey.
   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Why should I war without the walls of Troy,
     That find such cruel battle here within?

2. A male given name.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A city, the county seat of Pike County, Alabama.
   2. A city in Madison County, Illinois.
   3. A township and town therein, in Perry County, Indiana.
   4. A small city, the county seat of Doniphan County, Kansas.
   5. A town in Waldo County, Maine.
   6. A city in Michigan.
   7. A city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Missouri.
   8. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
   9. A city, the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York.
   10. A town, the county seat of Montgomery County, North Carolina.
   11. A city, the county seat of Miami County, Ohio.
   12. A town in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
   13. A town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
   14. A town and unincorporated community in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
   15. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Troy Township.

Synonyms

• Ilium

Derived terms

• East Troy
• game of Troy
• Trojan
• Trojan horse
• Troy game
• Troyish
• Troyland
• Troy town

Translations

an ancient city — see also Ilium

• Afrikaans: Troje
• Albanian: Troja f
• Amharic: ትሮያ f (təroya)
• Arabic: طَرْوَادَة f (ṭarwāda)
• Aragonese: Troya f
• Armenian: Տրոյա (hy) (Troya)
• Asturian: Troya f
• Azerbaijani: Troya
• Bashkir: Троя (Truya)
• Basque: Troia
• Belarusian: Троя f (Trója)
• Bengali: ট্রয় (ṭroẏ)
• Breton: Troia f
• Bulgarian: Троя f (Troja)
• Burmese: ထရွိုင်းမြို့ (hta.rwuing:mrui.)
• Catalan: Troia f
• Chechen: Тарша (Tarša)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 特洛伊 (dak⁶ lok⁶ ji¹)

  Mandarin: 特洛伊 (zh) (Tèluòyī), 特洛亞 / 特洛亚 (Tèluòyà)

• Czech: Trója (cs) f
• Danish: Troja
• Dutch: Troje (nl) n
• Esperanto: Trojo
• Estonian: Trooja (et)
• Finnish: Troija (fi)
• French: Troie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Troaje n

• Friulian: Troie f
• Galician: Troia (gl) f
• Georgian: ტროა (ṭroa)
• German: Troja (de) n, Troia (de) n

  Rhine Franconian: Troja

• Greek: Τροία (el) f (Troía)

  Ancient Greek: Τροία (Troía)

• Hebrew: טרויה f (tróya)
• Hindi: ट्रॉय m (ṭrŏy)
• Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭 (Wilusa), 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 (Truwisa)
• Hungarian: Trója (hu)
• Icelandic: Trója f, Trójuborg f
• Ido: Troya (io)
• Indonesian: Troya
• Interlingua: Troia
• Irish: an Traí f
• Italian: Troia f
• Jamaican Creole: Chrai
• Japanese: トロイ (Toroi)
• Korean: 트로이 (Teuroi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Troya (ku) f, Truva (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Троя (Troya)
• Latin: Teucria f, Troia (la) f
• Latvian: Troja f
• Limburgish: Troje (li) n
• Lithuanian: Troja f
• Luxembourgish: Troja n
• Macedonian: Троја f (Troja)
• Malayalam: ട്രോയ് (ṭrōyŭ), ത്രായ് (trāyŭ)
• Maltese: Trojja f
• Marathi: ट्रॉय n (ṭrŏy)
• Mingrelian: ტროა (ṭroa)
• Nepali: ट्रोय (ṭroya)
• Norman: Trouaie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Troja n

  Nynorsk: Troja n

• Occitan: Tròia f
• Old English: Trōia f
• Picard: Troée f
• Polish: Troja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Troia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਟਰੌਏ (ṭarauē)
• Quechua: Troya
• Romanian: Troia f
• Romansh: Troja f
• Russian: Тро́я (ru) f (Trója)
• Scottish Gaelic: Tròidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тро́ја f

  Latin: Trója (sh) f

• Sicilian: Troia f
• Sinhalese: ට්‍රෝයි (ṭrōyi)
• Slovak: Trója f
• Slovene: Troja (sl) f
• Spanish: Troya (es) f
• Swahili: Troia
• Swedish: Troja (sv) n
• Tagalog: Troya
• Tamil: திராய் (ta) (tirāy)
• Thai: ทรอย (troi)
• Turkish: Troya (tr), Truva (tr)
• Ukrainian: Тро́я f (Trója)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Троя (Troya)

  Latin: Troya

• Venetan: Troia f
• Waray-Waray: Troya
• Welsh: Caerdroea f
• West Flemish: Troje
• Yiddish: טרויאַ f (troya)
• Zazaki: Troya

See also

• Mitchel Troy

Etymology 2

From Old French Troyes.

Proper noun

Troy

1. A surname from Old French derived from the city Troyes in France.
   • 1998 May 6, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Death in Disguise”, in Midsomer Murders:

     DCI Tom Barnaby: Are you sure you don't speak Spanish, Troy?
     DS Gavin Troy : Positive.
     Barnaby: Name like 'Troy', it must mean something in Spanish. 'Accident', maybe, as in 'Didn't I always tell you Bill Carter's death was one?'

2. A male given name transferred from the surname, but today associated with the classical city.

Descendants

• → Cebuano: Troy
• → Tagalog: Troy

Anagrams

• Tory, ryot, tory, tyro

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English Troy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾoj/ [ˈt̪ɾ̪oj]

Proper noun

Troy (Badlit spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓᜌ᜔)

1. a male given name from English

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Troy.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾoj/ [ˈt̪ɾoɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -oj
• Syllabification: Troy

Proper noun

Troy (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓᜌ᜔)

1. a male given name from English