gran
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gran (plural grans)
- (informal, usually affectionate) A grandmother.
- (rare) A grandfather. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gran (plural grans)
References edit
- “grande”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
Asturian edit
Adjective edit
gran
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan gran, from Latin grandis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).
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Adjective edit
gran m or f (masculine and feminine plural grans)
- big, large
- Antonym: petit
- (of a person) old
- (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.
- "Hello, mother! Who am I?"
- great (very large)
- great (important)
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Noun edit
gran m (plural grans)
Further reading edit
- “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.
Friulian edit
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gran m (plural grans)
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Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese gran, from Latin grandis.
Adjective edit
gran m or f (apocopate)
- Apocopic form of grande (“great”)
- Gran Bretaña - Great Britain
- Gran Premio - Grand Prix
Usage notes edit
It is used, instead of grande, when preceding singular names whose first sound is a consonant
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Portuguese grão, Spanish grano, and Catalan gra.
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Noun edit
gran m (plural grans)
- (uncountable) grain, the seed of grass food crops
- 1396, M. Romaní Martínez, editor, 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
- Synonym: pisca
- 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.
- Also there it goes this tobacco,
- (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
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References edit
- “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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gran m or f (apocopate)
- Apocopic form of grande
- Gran Bretagna - Great Britain
- Gran Premio - Grand Prix
- gran turismo - grand touring
Ladin edit
Etymology edit
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective edit
gran m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural gragn, feminine plural grandes)
Mauritian Creole edit
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gran
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Danish gran, from Old Norse grǫn (“spruce, pine tree”), from Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, bristles”), fFrom Proto-Indo-European *gʰroH-néh₂-.
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Noun edit
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 edit
- furu (“pine”)
Derived terms edit
References edit
“gran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
gran f (definite singular grana, indefinite plural graner, definite plural granene)
- spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
- spruce (wood from spruce trees)
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Occitan edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Occitan gran, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective edit
gran
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
gran m (plural grans)
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gran
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Descendants edit
Old Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin grandis, grandem.
Adjective edit
gran m or f (plural grans)
Descendants edit
- Occitan: gran
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian гран (gran).
Noun edit
gran n (plural grane)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish grant, grand, apocopic forms of grande (“great”). Other apocopic forms inherited from Old Spanish include primer, san and según.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gran m or f (apocopate, standard form grande)
Usage notes edit
- The form gran is used only before and within the noun phrase of the modified singular noun. Elsewhere, grande is used instead.
Further reading edit
- “gran”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Norse grǫn. First attested in the early 14th century.[1]
Noun edit
gran c
- spruce (mostly the species Picea abies or Norway spruce, the species found most often in Sweden)
Declension edit
Declension of gran | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gran | granen | granar | granarna |
Genitive | grans | granens | granars | granarnas |
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin grānum (“smallest unit of weight”), derived from Latin grānum (“grain; seed”). First attested in 1497.[2]
Noun edit
gran c
- (historical) A Swedish grain at 0.297 mm; 1⁄10 of a nylinje (“2.97 mm”) or 10 skrupel (“29.7 µm”).
- (historical, pharmacy) A Swedish grain at 61.85 mg, 1/20th of a skrupel (“1.237 g”).
- 1860 August 11, “Botmedel mot kolera [Cure for cholera]”, in Skara Nya Tidning:
- Alla de, ſom under ſjukdomen dagligen intogo 2 gran etiope, blefwo bewarade ifrån ſjukdomen.
- All those who, during the disease, took 2 grain of ethiope daily, were preserved from the disease.
References edit
Further reading edit
- gran in Svensk ordbok.