troubadour

English

Etymology

From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.

Noun

troubadour (plural troubadours)

1. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
   • 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

   • 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[2], season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

     “"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”

Coordinate terms

• trobairitz

Derived terms

• troubadour fiddle

 

Translations

an itinerant performer of songs

• Arabic: تْرُوبَادُور m (trūbādūr)
• Armenian: տրուբադուր (hy) (trubadur)
• Belarusian: трубаду́р m (trubadúr)
• Bulgarian: трубаду́р m (trubadúr)
• Catalan: trobador (ca) m, trobadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吟遊詩人／吟游诗人 (zh) (yínyóu shīrén)

• Crimean Tatar: aşıq
• Czech: trubadúr (cs) m
• Danish: trubadur c
• Dutch: troubadour (nl) m
• Esperanto: trobadoro
• Finnish: trubaduuri (fi)
• French: troubadour (fr) m, trouvère (fr) m, trobairitz (fr) f, troubadouresse (fr) f
• Galician: troveiro m, troveira f
• German: Troubadour (de) m, Trobador (de) m, Troubairitz (de) f, Trobairitz (de) f, Troubadourin f
• Greek: τροβαδούρος (el) m (trovadoúros)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: trubadúr (hu)
• Italian: trovatore (it) m, trobadore m, trovatrice f, trobairitz f
• Japanese: 吟遊詩人 (ja) (ぎんゆうしじん, gin'yū shijin), トルバドゥール (torubadūru)
• Korean: 음유시인(吟遊詩人) (ko) (eumyusiin), 트루바두르 (teurubadureu)
• Macedonian: трубаду́р m (trubadúr)
• Marathi: ट्रुबाडूर m (ṭrubāḍūr)
• Polish: trubadur (pl) m
• Portuguese: trovador (pt) m
• Romanian: trubadur (ro) m
• Russian: трубаду́р (ru) m (trubadúr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: труба̀дӯр m

  Roman: trubàdūr (sh) m

• Slovak: trubadúr m
• Slovene: trubadur (sl) m
• Spanish: trovador (es) m, trovadora (es) f
• Swedish: trubadur (sv) c
• Tarifit: amedyaz m
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: трубаду́р m (trubadúr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) trubadur, (♂) hitrubadur, (♀) jitrubadur

Danish

Noun

troubadour c (singular definite troubadouren, plural indefinite troubadourer)

1. Alternative spelling of trubadur

Declension

Declension of troubadour

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	troubadour	troubadouren	troubadourer	troubadourerne
genitive	troubadours	troubadourens	troubadourers	troubadourernes

French

Alternative forms

• trobador

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan trobador (< trobar (“to find”)) via Old French troubadour. Corresponds to the native French trouveur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

troubadour m (plural troubadours, feminine troubadouresse or trobairitz)

1. troubadour

Coordinate terms

• femme-troubadour
• trobairitz

Further reading

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