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4-letter words (2 found)

BARN,BRAN,

3-letter words (6 found)

ARB,BAN,BAR,BRA,NAB,RAN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AB,AN,AR,BA,NA,

You can make 13 words from bran according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bran

bran rban barn abrn rabn arbn brna rbna bnra nbra rnba nrba banr abnr bnar nbar anbr nabr ranb arnb rnab nrab anrb narb

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Definitions and meaning of bran

bran

Etymology 1

From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈbɹæn/
  • Rhymes: -æn

Noun

bran (countable and uncountable, plural brans)

  1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Welsh brân or Cornish bran?

Noun

bran (plural brans)

  1. (ornithology) The European carrion crow.

Further reading

  • bran on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • NRAB, barn

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

Noun

bran m (plural brini)

  1. crow, raven

Inflection

See also

  • frav

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *brandus, from Frankish *brand.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbɾan]

Noun

bran m (plural brans)

  1. broadsword

Related terms

  • brandar

Further reading

  • “bran” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “bran”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “bran” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “bran” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna, Slovene vrana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɹæːn]

Noun

bran m (plural brini or briny)

  1. crow

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbran]

Etymology 1

Noun

bran f

  1. genitive plural of brána

Etymology 2

Noun

bran f

  1. genitive plural of brány

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bran, from Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna, Slovene vrana.)

Noun

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

  1. (literary) raven
    Synonym: fiach
Declension
Derived terms
  • branán m (“raven; a principal piece in ancient board-game set; prince”)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

  1. bream (Abramis brama)
    Synonyms: bréan, deargán
Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

bran m (genitive singular bran)

  1. Clipping of bran (mór) (“bran”).
  2. Clipping of bran beag (“pollard”).
Declension

Etymology 4

From English bran.

Noun

bran m (genitive singular bran)

  1. bran
Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bran”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bran (‘raven’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Entries containing “bran” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “bran” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • branne, bren

Etymology

From Old French bren, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bran/, /brɛn/, /braːn/

Noun

bran

  1. The ground husk of wheat

Descendants

  • English: bran
  • Yola: bran

References

  • “brā̆n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Noun

bran oblique singular, m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural bran)

  1. Alternative form of branc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bran/

Noun

bran m (genitive brain or broin, nominative plural brain or broin)

  1. raven
    Synonyms: fiach, trogan

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: bran

Mutation

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bornь. Cognate with Polish broń.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bráːn/

Noun

brȃn f

  1. defense
Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bran

  1. genitive dual/plural of brana

Further reading

  • “bran”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English bran.

Noun

bran m (uncountable)

  1. bran (broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain), husks

Derived terms

  • bran gwenith (“wheat-bran”)

Mutation

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bran”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English brān, from Old French bran, bren, from Gaulish brennos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɾɔːn/

Noun

bran

  1. bran

References

  • 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 93

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