atropar

• tropar (Eastern Asturias)
• atroupar (Western Asturias)

From Old Leonese atropar.

• IPA^(key): /atɾoˈpaɾ/ [a.t̪ɾoˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tro‧par

atropar (first-person singular indicative present atropo, past participle atropáu)

1. to gather, assemble , pile up

   Synonyms: embalagar, afacinar, apilar

2. to hoard (money)

   Synonym: aforrar

   • 1920, Manuel García, Cartas a Xico‎^[1]:

     que los que tan na Bana / atropen el dinero como poxa / y non sienten gastalo nin migaya.

     those who are in Havana / hoard money as if it was husks / and they don't feel like spending it at all

3. (reflexive) to move away, to get out of the way

   Synonym: quitar

   Atrópate del camín ― Get out of the way

4. (historical) to line up (troops)
5. to say something that wasn't clear

   Nun sé qué m'atropó ― I don't know what he said to me

• atropar la ceniza y esparder la fariña
• atropamientu
• atropadín
• atropabarru

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “atropar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “atropar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Found in a Spanish document with heavy Leonese influence (Tractatus de proprietatibus rerum) dating to 1480.^[1]

atropar

1. to gather
   • 1480, Tractatus de proprietatibus rerum (Leonese-influenced Spanish):

     Es la buena abeja en sí pequeña, atropada y redonda y en la cintura estrecha y en media manera vellosa

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Asturian: atropar
• Leonese: atropare

From a- +‎ tropa +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /atɾoˈpaɾ/ [a.t̪ɾoˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tro‧par

atropar (first-person singular present atropo, first-person singular preterite atropé, past participle atropado)

1. to line up (troops)

• “atropar”, 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