gran

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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

(informal) a grandmother

• Esperanto: avinjo (eo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: mummo (fi), mummi (fi), isoäiti (fi)

Anagrams

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

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

1. big

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Asturian

Adjective

gran

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

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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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; oldest, eldest, senior
   • 2020 February 10, Daniel Bonaventura, “"Necessito abraçades i petons" ["I need hugs and kisses"]”, in Ara‎^[1]:

     -Hola, mare! Qui soc?
     -En Joan.
     -No, no. No soc en Joan. Soc el teu fill gran. Com es diu el teu fill gran?
     -Daniel -encara mira a terra.

     "Hello, mother! Who am I?"
     "Joan."
     "No, no. I'm not Joan. I'm your oldest son. What's the name of your oldest son?
     "Daniel." She's still looking at the ground.

4. great (very large)
5. great (important)

Derived terms

• engrandir
• grandària
• grandesa
• grandíssim
• grandor

 

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.

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. wheat, corn
2. grain

Related terms

• granâr

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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

• gra, grao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾaŋ]

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
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Tamen bay ese tabeque

     meu velliño, pois fungàs

     que cada grao de èl gorenta,

     con eso as fremas sairàn.

     Also there it goes this tobacco,

     my little old man, since you snivel:

     each grain of it is delectable,

     with this phlegms will go out.

   Synonym: pisca

5. (countable) pimple

   Synonym: espiña

6. (uncountable) grain, texture

   Synonym: textura

Derived terms

• gran de corvo
• pedra de gran

Related terms

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

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “grão”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gran”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “gran” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gran”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gran”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gran”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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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

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Ladin

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

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

1. large; great

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French grand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃/

Adjective

gran

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

gran

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.

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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

• Gran (place)
• granbar
• granbord
• granbork
• granbruk
• granbusk
• granhage
• granhol
• granhjort
• granholt
• grankongul grankongel, grankongle
• grankvae, grankvåde
• granlav
• granmork
• granripel
• granski
• granskog

Related terms

• grene

References

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

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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

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m or f (plural grans)

1. big; large

Descendants

• Occitan: gran

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Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• grande

Etymology

From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

1. big

Descendants

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

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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

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse grǫn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːn/

• audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

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

Further reading

• gran in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• garn, rang