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# {{lb|gl|uncountable}} [[grain]] {{gloss|the seed of grass food crops}}
# {{lb|gl|uncountable}} [[grain]] {{gloss|the seed of grass food crops}}
#* '''1396''', M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), ''La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira''. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV, page 449:
#*: ''E nos dedes del de cada anno em paz et em salvo en a ayra do dito casar quarta de todo pan e '''grao''' que Deus em el der''
#*:: and you shall give us each year, pacifically and safely, in the threshing ground of that farm, a quarter of all the bread and the '''grain''' that God there gives
# {{lb|gl|countable}} [[grain]] {{gloss|a single seed}}
# {{lb|gl|countable}} [[grain]] {{gloss|a single seed}}
# {{lb|gl|countable}} [[grain]], [[particle]]
# {{lb|gl|countable}} [[grain]], [[particle]]

Revision as of 13:12, 10 February 2020

See also: Gran, grán, grań, gràn, grãn, Grän, and grån

English

Pronunciation

Noun

gran (plural grans)

  1. (informal, usually affectionate) a grandmother
  2. (rare) a grandfather

Translations

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran (plural grans)

  1. big

Asturian

Adjective

gran

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 170: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin grandis, grandem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

gran m or f (masculine and feminine plural grans)

  1. big, large
    Antonym: petit
  2. (of a person) old
    Antonym: jove
  3. (of a person) older, senior
  4. great (very large)
  5. great (important)

Derived terms

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

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

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

  1. wheat, corn
  2. grain

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese gran, from Latin grandis.

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate)

  1. Apocopic form of grande
    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 and Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Portuguese grão and Spanish grano.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

  1. (uncountable) grain (the seed of grass food crops)
    • 1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV, page 449:
      E nos dedes del de cada anno em paz et em salvo en a ayra do dito casar quarta de todo pan e grao que Deus em el der
      and you shall give us each year, pacifically and safely, in the threshing ground of that farm, a quarter of all the bread and the grain that God there gives
  2. (countable) grain (a single seed)
  3. (countable) grain, particle
  4. (countable) a small quantity
    Synonym: pisca
  5. (countable) pimple
    Synonym: espiña
  6. (uncountable) grain, texture
    Synonym: textura

Derived terms

References

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡran/, [ɡr̺än̺]

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

Pronunciation

Etymology

From French grand

Adjective

gran

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

Norwegian Bokmål

 gran on Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia
gran

Etymology

From Old Norse grǫn

Pronunciation

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

References

“gran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Old Norse grǫn

Pronunciation

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)

References

“gran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan gran, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

  1. big; large
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

  1. grain

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m or f (plural grans)

  1. big; large

Descendants

  • Catalan: gran
  • Occitan: gran

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

  1. big

Descendants

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

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.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse grǫn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrɑːn/
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Noun

gran c

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

Declension

Declension of gran
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gran grans
definite granen granens
plural indefinite granar granars
definite granarna granarnas

Anagrams

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