granary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain +‎ -ary. Doublet of garner.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹænəɹi/
(US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪnəɹi/[1]
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Noun

granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)

(agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
- 1837, George Sand, Stanley Young, transl., Mauprat‎, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
  For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
(figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.

Synonyms

(fertile region): breadbasket

Hypernyms

(fertile region): food bowl

Hyponyms

(fertile region): rice bowl

Derived terms

granary bread

Translations

storage facility

Albanian: hambar (sq) m
Arabic: مَخْزَن الْحُبُوب‎ m (maḵzan al-ḥubūb), شُونَة‎ f (šūna)
Armenian: ամբար (hy) (ambar), շտեմարան (hy) (štemaran)
Atayal: khu
Azerbaijani: anbar (az)
Basque: aletegi
Belarusian: збожжасхо́вішча n (zbožžasxóvišča), сві́ран m (svíran), клець f (kljecʹ), жы́тніца f (žýtnica), амба́р m (ambár)
Bulgarian: хамба́р (bg) m (hambár), жи́тница (bg) f (žítnica)
Burmese: စည့် (my) (cany.), ကျီ (my) (kyi), စပါးကျီ (my) (ca.pa:kyi)
Catalan: graner (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 筒倉／筒仓 (tǒngcāng), 糧倉／粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng)
Chuvash: ампар (amp̬ar), кӗлет (kĕlet)
Czech: sýpka f
Danish: lade (da) c
Dutch: graanschuur (nl), spieker (nl) m
Egyptian:

(mẖr)
Esperanto: garbejo (eo), grenejo
Estonian: ait (et)
Farefare: bãarɛ
Finnish: aitta (fi)
French: grenier (fr) m
Galician: hórreo (gl) m, celeiro (gl) m
Georgian: ბეღელი (beɣeli)
German: Getreidespeicher (de) m, Kornhaus n, Kornspeicher (de) m, Speicher (de) m
Greek: σιταποθήκη (el) m (sitapothíki), σιτοβολώνας (el) m (sitovolónas)
Ancient: σιτοθήκη f (sitothḗkē)
Hebrew: מַמְּגוּרָה‎ (he) f (mamgurá), אָסָם‎ (he) m (asám)
Hindi: धान्यागार m (dhānyāgār), अन्नागार m (annāgār), बखारी (hi) f (bakhārī)
Hungarian: magtár (hu), hombár (hu)
Indonesian: lumbung (id)
Italian: granaio (it)
Japanese: 穀倉 (ja) (こくそう, kokusō)
Kazakh: қамба (qamba), қойма (qoima), албар (albar)
Khmer: តឹក (km) (tək), ជង្រុក (km) (cŭəngruk), កោដ្ឋ (km) (kaot)
Kikuyu: ikũmbĩ class 5
Korean: 곡창(穀倉) (ko) (gokchang)
Kyrgyz: кампа (ky) (kampa), амбар (ky) (ambar)
Lao: ຍຸ້ງ (nyung), ສາງ (lo) (sāng), ເຍັຽ (nyīa)
Latin: grānārium n
Latvian: klēts f, klēts m
Lithuanian: klė́tis f
Macedonian: а́мбар m (ámbar)
Malay: jelapang
Maori: pātaka pata
Mari:
Western Mari: клӓт (klät)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: амбаар (mn) (ambaar), агуулах (mn) (aguulax)
Moore: baoore
Norman: grain'nie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: låve (no) m
Persian: انبار‎ (fa) (anbâr), انبار غله‎ (fa) (anbâr-e ğalle)
Plautdietsch: Spikja m
Polish: spichlerz (pl) m, spichrz (pl) m
Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
Quechua: pirwa
Romanian: grânar (ro)
Russian: зернохрани́лище (ru) n (zernoxranílišče), амба́р (ru) m (ambár), жи́тница (ru) f (žítnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жи̏тница f, а̏мба̄р m, ха̏мба̄р m
Roman: žȉtnica (sh) f, ȁmbār (sh) m, hȁmbār (sh) m
Slovak: sýpka (sk) f
Slovene: kašča f
Spanish: granero (es) m
Swahili: ghala (sw)
Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, sädesmagasin (sv) n, kornbod (sv) c, lada (sv) c
Tagalog: kamalig
Tajik: анбор (anbor), анбори ғалла (anbori ġalla)
Tatar: амбар (ambar), келәт (tt) (kelät)
Telugu: కోష్ఠము (te) (kōṣṭhamu)
Thai: ยุ้ง (th) (yúng), ฉาง (th) (chǎang)
Turkish: hububat ambarı, tahıl ambarı (tr)
Turkmen: ammar (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎒𐎎 (ảsm)
Ukrainian: шпіхлі́р m (špixlír), зерносхо́вище n (zernosxóvyšče), жи́тниця f (žýtnycja), комо́ра (uk) f (komóra), амба́р (uk) m (ambár), гамазе́й m (hamazéj), гамазе́я f (hamazéja), си́панець m (sýpanecʹ)
Uzbek: ombor (uz), omborxona (uz)
Vietnamese: kho thóc, kho ngũ cốc
Welsh: graneri m, granar m, llofft yr ŷd f