gran

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

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɹæn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -æn

Noun

gran (plural grans)

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

Translations

(informal) a grandmother

Esperanto: avinjo (eo)
Finnish: mummo (fi), mummi (fi), isoäiti (fi)

Anagrams

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

big

Asturian

Adjective

gran

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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾan/
Audio (file)

Adjective

gran (masculine and feminine plural grans)

big, large
Antonym: petit
(of a person) old
Antonym: jove
(of a person) older; oldest, eldest, senior
- 2020 February 10, Daniel Bonaventura, “"Necessito abraçades i petons" ["I need hugs and kisses"]”, in Ara‎:
  -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.
great (very large)
great (important)

Derived terms

engrandir
grandària
grandesa
grandíssim
grandor

Related terms

grandiós

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

(in the plural) adults, grown-ups

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

wheat, corn
grain

Related terms

granâr

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate)

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 and Old 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)

(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
(countable) grain, seed, kernel, bean, a single seed of certain crops
(countable) grain, a single similar particle of various substances
(historical, countable) grano, Spanish grain, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 50 mg
(countable) grain, any of various traditional units of mass notionally based on the weight of various grains
(figurative, countable) speck, ounce, any extremely small quantity or amount
- 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
(countable) pimple, blackhead, a blocked skin pore, especially with a painful and pus-filled inflamation
Synonym: espiña
(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)

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)

large; great

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French grand.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃/

Adjective

gran

great
grown-up
big
tall

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)

spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
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)

spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
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

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan gran, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

big; large

Alternative forms

grand

Etymology 2

From Latin grānum.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

grain

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m or f (plural grans)

big; large

Descendants

Occitan: gran

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

grande

Etymology

From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

big

Descendants

Fala: gran
Galician: gran
Portuguese: grão

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian гран (gran).

Noun

gran n (plural grane)

(obsolete) grain (unit of weight)

Declension

Declension of gran

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) gran	granul	(niște) grane	granele
genitive/dative	(unui) gran	granului	(unor) grane	granelor
vocative	granule		granelor

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)

(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/
audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

gran c

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

Declension

Declension of gran
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gran	granen	granar	granarna
Genitive	grans	granens	granars	granarnas

Anagrams

garn, rang

gran

English

Pronunciation

Noun

Translations

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

Adjective

Asturian

Adjective

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

Noun

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Galician

Etymology 1

Adjective

Usage notes

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Italian

Pronunciation

Adjective

Ladin

Etymology

Adjective

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Hypernyms

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Occitan

Etymology 1

Adjective

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Noun

Old Occitan

Etymology

Adjective

Descendants

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Adjective

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

References

Spanish