trou

From trousers.

• IPA^(key): /tɹaʊ/

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trou (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand, US) Trousers.
2. (US) Rowing spandex shorts.

• drop trou

• trou-de-loup
• trou madame

• OED 2006

• Tour, rout, tour

From Dutch trouwen (similar root to Engl. "troth").

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trou (present trou, present participle trouende, past participle getrou)

1. to marry

• Alongside regular het getrou, this verb has an alternative irregular past tense is getroud, which can be read both as active and passive:

Dit is die kerk waar ons op die ouderdom van 20 jaar getroud is. — “This is the church where we married (or: were married) at the age of 20.”

• The above construction refers to the past and is clearly verbal. Beyond this, getroud can also be an adjective in a phrase like the following:

Ons is gelukkig getroud. — “We are happily married.”

From Early Medieval Latin traugus, a "barbarous" Latin word first attested in the Ripuarian Law, probably related to torus (“round hill”).^[1] Thought to be of Celtic, specifically Gaulish, origin.

Related to Catalan and Occitan trauc.

• IPA^(key): /tʁu/

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trou m (plural trous)

1. hole
2. blank (memory)
3. pause in conversation

• ouverture

• “trou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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