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trouble

/tʁubl/

noun, masculine/tʁubl/plural: troubles

trouble; disorder

fauteur de troublestroublemaker

Deverbal from troubler or from Old French troble.

adjective/tʁubl/

murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear

Related: pêcher en eau trouble

Inherited from Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure.