tren

• IPA^(key): /tɹɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

tren (uncountable)

1. (bodybuilding slang) Clipping of trenbolone (a steroid used to increase muscle growth).
   • 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 November 2023:

     While on "tren" (trenbolone acetate), one of the most potent steroids, [Tom] Powell couldn't keep a hard-on as long as he wanted. He had night sweats and nightmares.

• tern, Rent, Tern, rent

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tren m (plural trena, definite treni, definite plural trenat)

1. train

Borrowed from French train.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾen/
• Syllabification: tren
• Rhymes: -en

tren m (plural trens)

1. train

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “tren”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From French train.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾen/ [ˈt̪ɾẽŋ]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: tren

tren m (plural trenes)

1. (transport, railway) train

From French train.

• IPA^(key): /tren/ [t̪rẽn]

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• Rhymes: -en
• Hyphenation: tren

tren inan

1. (transport, railway) train

Borrowed from French train.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾɛn]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾen]

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tren m (plural trens)

1. (transport, railway) train

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɾɛn]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɾən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾen]

tren

1. (Balearic) first-person singular present indicative of trenar

• “tren”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tren”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “tren” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tren”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from Spanish tren, from French train.

tren

1. train, locomotive

From English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō.

tren

1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

Other scripts
Cyrillic	трен
Roman

From French train.

tren

1. train

   Synonym: (obsolete) poyezd

• “tren”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• trem (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɾɛŋ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋ
• Hyphenation: tren

13th century. From Old French train.

tren m (plural trens)

1. (nautical) fishing tackle; leadline
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

     a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in panwn for 600 mor.

19th century. Ultimately from French train.

tren m (plural trens)

1. a connected sequence of things (in time or space)

   Synonyms: serie, secuencia

   1. (transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

• tren de ondas (“wavetrain”)

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tren”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tren”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tren”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tren”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• trend (Standard Malay)

Unadapted borrowing from English trend, from Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtren/ [ˈt̪rɛn]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: tren

trén (plural tren-tren)

1. trend, tendency

   Synonym: kecenderungan

2. trend (a fad or fashion style)

   Gaya rambut ini sedang menjadi tren di kalangan anak muda.

   This hairstyle is currently a trend among young people.

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Standard Malay usage can be seen in Malay trén.

• “tren”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō.

• (schwa-variety, /a/-variety, Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈtren/ [ˈt̪ren]
• Rhymes: -en
• Hyphenation: tren

trén (Jawi spelling ترين, plural tren-tren or tren²)

1. (transport) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

   Synonym: kereta api

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian tren.

• "tren" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Italian treno. Doublet of trejn.

• IPA^(key): /trɛːn/
• Rhymes: -ɛːn

tren m (plural trenijiet)

1. alternative form of trejn: train (vehicle)

   Synonym: ferrovija

• treen

tren

1. plural of tre

tren

1. alternative form of treen

tren

1. imperative of trene

tren

1. imperative of trena

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛŋ/

tren m (plural tren)

1. pulling, towing
2. train

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: tren

Borrowed from French traîne.

tren m inan (related adjective trenowy)

1. train (elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground)

Learned borrowing from Latin thrēnus.

tren m inan (related adjective trenowy)

1. (poetry) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)

   Synonyms: lament, lamentacja

• “tren”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• tren in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French train.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtren/

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• Rhymes: -en

tren n (plural trenuri)

1. (rail transport) train
2. (chiefly military) train (convoy, caravan)

• “tren”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1983), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[3], volume 11, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 587–588

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trenъ, from earlier *trepnъ, related to treptati (“to blink”).

• IPA^(key): /trên/

trȅn m inan (Cyrillic spelling тре̏н)

1. moment (brief amount of time)

   Synonyms: čȁs, mȃh

• trenútak
• trȅnuti
• trȅnūtan

• “tren”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Borrowed from French train.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾen/ [ˈt̪ɾẽn]

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• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: tren

tren m (plural trenes)

1. (transport, railway) train
2. (rare) extravagance

• → Moroccan Arabic: تران (trān)
• → Tagalog: tren
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: treni̱
• → Yaqui: tréen

• “tren”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• teren

Borrowed from Spanish tren, from French train.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾen/ [ˈt̪ɾɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: tren

tren (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜈ᜔) (rail transport)

1. train

• “tren”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

From Ottoman Turkish ترن (tren), from French train.

• IPA^(key): /tɾɛn/

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• Hyphenation: tren

tren (definite accusative treni, plural trenler)

1. (transport, railway) train

Compare Italian treno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛŋ/

tren m (plural treni)

1. (transport, railway) train

• IPA^(key): /tɾen/

tren (genitive trena, plural trens)

1. (transport, railway) train
   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Desinob ad motävön ün göd odela me tren balid.

     I intend setting off tomorrow morning by the first train.

   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 28:

     Tren odevegon poszedelo tü düp: tel minuts mäl.

     The train will be leaving at 2:06 PM.

From Middle English tre, from Old English trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu.

• IPA^(key): /triːn/

tren

1. trees

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73