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gran rgan garn agrn ragn argn grna rgna gnra ngra rnga nrga ganr agnr gnar ngar angr nagr rang arng rnag nrag anrg narg

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Definitions and meaning of gran

gran

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

gran (plural grans)

1. (informal, usually affectionate) A grandmother.
2. (rare) A grandfather. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Anagrams

• ARNG, NARG, gRNA, garn, gnar, grna, narg, rang

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: gran

Adjective

gran (plural grans)

1. big

References

• “grande”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Adjective

gran

1. (apocopic, before a singular noun) Alternative form of grande, big

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gran, from Latin grandis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

gran m or f (masculine and feminine plural grans)

1. big, large

   Antonym: petit

2. (of a person) old

   Antonym: jove

   la gent gran : aged people, elders

   els grans : (only generic masculine plural, as said by children) the adults

3. (of a person) older; oldest, eldest, senior
4. great (very large)
5. great (important)

Derived terms

Related terms

• grandiós

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. (in the plural) adults, grown-ups

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. wheat, corn
2. grain

Related terms

• granâr

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese gran, from Latin grandis.

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate)

1. Apocopic form of grande (“great”)

   Gran Bretaña - Great Britain

   Gran Premio - Grand Prix

Usage notes

It is used, instead of grande, when preceding singular names whose first sound is a consonant

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Portuguese grão, Spanish grano, and Catalan gra.

Alternative forms

• gra, grao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾaŋ]

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. (uncountable) grain, the seed of grass food crops
2. (countable) grain, seed, kernel, bean, a single seed of certain crops
3. (countable) grain, a single similar particle of various substances
4. (historical, countable) grano, Spanish grain, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 50 mg
5. (countable) grain, any of various traditional units of mass notionally based on the weight of various grains
6. (figurative, countable) speck, ounce, any extremely small quantity or amount

   Synonym: pisca
7. (countable) pimple, blackhead, a blocked skin pore, especially with a painful and pus-filled inflamation

   Synonym: espiña

8. (uncountable) grain, the linear surface texture of various substances

   Synonym: textura

Derived terms

• gran de corvo
• pedra de gran

Related terms

• degraer
• degrañar
• Graña
• grañón
• grañudo
• granxa
• Granxa

References

• “grão” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “gran” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “gran” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “gran” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “gran” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “gran” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: gràn

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate)

1. Apocopic form of grande

   Gran Bretagna - Great Britain

   Gran Premio - Grand Prix

   gran turismo - grand touring

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural gragn, feminine plural grandes)

1. large; great

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French grand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃/

Adjective

gran

1. great
2. grown-up
3. big
4. tall

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish gran, from Old Norse grǫn (“spruce, pine tree”), from Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, bristles”), fFrom Proto-Indo-European *gʰroH-néh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːn/

Noun

gran f or m (definite singular grana or granen, indefinite plural graner, definite plural granene)

1. spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
2. spruce (wood from spruce trees)

Hypernyms

• furu (“pine”)

Derived terms

• granskog, grandekket, grantopp

References

“gran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• gron
• grøn (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse grǫn (“spruce or pine tree”), whence also gron (“muzzle; animal lips”). From Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, bristles”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroH-néh₂-. Cognate with Faroese gron, Icelandic grön, and Swedish and Danish gran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːn/

Noun

gran f (definite singular grana, indefinite plural graner, definite plural granene)

1. spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
2. spruce (wood from spruce trees)

Derived terms

Related terms

• grene

References

• “gran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “gran” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan gran, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

1. big; large

Alternative forms

• grand

Etymology 2

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. grain

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• grande
• grã, gram

Etymology

From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaŋ/

Adjective

gran

1. big

Derived terms

• agram perfia
• a gran poder
• a gran pressa
• a gran sazon

Descendants

• Fala: gran
• Galician: gran
• Portuguese: grão

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m or f (plural grans)

1. big; large

Descendants

• Occitan: gran

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian гран (gran).

Noun

gran n (plural grane)

1. (obsolete) grain (unit of weight)

Declension

References

• gran in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish grant, grand, apocopic forms of grande (“great”). Other apocopic forms inherited from Old Spanish include primer, san and según.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾan/ [ˈɡɾãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: gran

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate, standard form grande)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of grande; great.

Usage notes

• The form gran is used only before and within the noun phrase of the modified singular noun. Elsewhere, grande is used instead.

Further reading

• “gran”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse grǫn. First attested in the early 14th century.

Noun

gran c

1. spruce (mostly the species Picea abies or Norway spruce, the species found most often in Sweden)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin grānum (“smallest unit of weight”), derived from Latin grānum (“grain; seed”). First attested in 1497.

Noun

gran c

1. (historical) A Swedish grain at 0.297 mm; ¹⁄₁₀ of a nylinje (“2.97 mm”) or 10 skrupel (“29.7 µm”).

   Coordinate terms: rev, stång, fot, decimaltum, nylinje, gran, skrupel

2. (historical, pharmacy) A Swedish grain at 61.85 mg, 1/20th of a skrupel (“1.237 g”).

   Coordinate terms: liber, uns, drakma, skrupel, gran

References

Further reading

• gran in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• garn, rang

Source: wiktionary.org