грана
See also: граня
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *grana (cognate with dialectal or obsolete Bulgarian гран (gran)/гранка (granka)), from Proto-Indo-European, cognate with German Granne (“awn”), Old English granu (“moustache”) and Old Norse grǫn (“a pine tree”) (whence Danish gran (“spruce”)). Compare Old Norse grein (“branch”) (whence Danish gren).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrǎːna/
- Hyphenation: гра‧на
- Rhymes: -ǎːna
Noun
гра́на f (Latin spelling grána)
- branch
- сломљена грана ― a broken branch
- боље врабац у руци него голуб на грани ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- field, branch
- грана знаности/науке ― a branch of science
- туризам је стратешка господарска грана ― tourism is a strategic branch of the economx
Declension
Declension of грана
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | грана | гране |
| genitive | гране | грана |
| dative | грани | гранама |
| accusative | грану | гране |
| vocative | грано | гране |
| locative | грани | гранама |
| instrumental | граном | гранама |
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:grana.
References
- “грана” in Hrvatski jezični portal