bran

See also: Bran and brân

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæn/
• (US): IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

EtymologyEdit

From Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).

NounEdit

bran (countable and uncountable, plural brans)

1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
2. The European carrion crow.

TranslationsEdit

outside layer of a grain

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: نخّالة‏‎ f (nəḵḵæla)

• Armenian: թեփ (hy) (tʿepʿ)
• Bulgarian: три́ци (bg) pl (tríci)
• Catalan: segó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麩皮 (zh), 麸皮 (zh) (fūpí), 麩 (zh), 麸 (zh) (fū)

• Crimean Tatar: kebek
• Czech: otruby f pl
• Dutch: zemel (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lese (fi)
• French: son (fr) m
• Georgian: ქატო (kaṭo)
• German: Kleie (de) f
• Greek: πίτουρο (el) n (pítouro)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: korpa (hu)
• Irish: bran m
• Italian: crusca (it) f, semola f
• Japanese: 麸 (ja) (ふすま, fusuma) (wheat bran), 糠 (ja) (ぬか, nuka) (rice bran)
• Korean: 겨 (ko) (gyeo), 기울 (ko) (giul)

• Latin: canicae f pl, apluda f
• Luxembourgish: Krësch (lb) m
• Macedonian: три́ци pl (tríci)
• Maori: pāpapa
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: farelo (pt) m
• Romanian: tărâțe f pl
• Russian: о́труби (ru) f pl (ótrubi), вы́севки (ru) f pl (výsevki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мекиње pl

  Roman: mekinje (sh) pl

• Slovene: otrobi m pl
• Spanish: salvado (es) m, acemite (es) (archaic), afrecho (es) m
• Tagalog: darak
• Tashelhit: ⵉⵍⴰⵎⵎⵏ m pl (ilæmmən)
• Telugu: తవుడు (te) (tavuḍu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kepek (tr)
• Vietnamese: cám (vi)
• Walloon: laton (wa) m, latons (wa) m pl (more frequently), grus (wa) m pl
• Welsh: eisin pl

AnagramsEdit

• NRAB, barn

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BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

NounEdit

bran m (plural brini)

1. crow, raven

InflectionEdit

  Mutation of bran  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	bran	vran	unchanged	pran	vran
plural	brini	vrini	unchanged	prini	vrini

See alsoEdit

• frav

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CornishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [bɹæːn]

NounEdit

bran m (plural brini or briny)

1. crow

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IrishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Irish bran, from Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

NounEdit

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

1. (literary) raven

SynonymsEdit

• fiach

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

1. bream (Abramis brama)

SynonymsEdit

• bréan
• deargán

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bran

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bran brain Vocative a bhrain a bhrana Genitive brain bran Dative bran brain

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bran na brain Genitive an bhrain na mbran Dative leis an mbran don bhran leis na brain

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bran	bhran	mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• “1 bran (‘raven’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• "bran" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Old FrenchEdit

NounEdit

bran m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural bran)

1. Alternative form of branc

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Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bran/

NounEdit

bran m (genitive brain or broin, nominative plural brain or broin)

1. raven

InflectionEdit

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

SynonymsEdit

• fiach, trogan

DescendantsEdit

• Irish: bran

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bran	bran pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• “1 bran” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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SloveneEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈbráːn/
• Tonal orthography: brȃn

NounEdit

brán f (genitive braní, nominative plural braní)

1. defense

DeclensionEdit

Declension of brán (feminine, i-stem, mobile accent)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	brán	braní	braní
accusative	brán	braní	braní
genitive	braní	braní	braní
dative	bráni	branéma	braném
locative	bráni	branéh	branéh
instrumental	branjó	branéma	branmí

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WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bran.

NounEdit

bran m (plural {{{2}}})

1. bran (broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain), husks

Derived termsEdit

• bran gwenith (“wheat-bran”)

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bran	fran	mran	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• “bran”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014