gran

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

gran (plural grans)

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

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

From Latin grandis, grandem.

gran

1. big

gran

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

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

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

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gran (masculine and feminine plural grans)

1. big, large

   Antonym: petit

2. (of a person) old

   Antonym: jove

3. (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.

4. great (very large)
5. great (important)

• grandiós

gran m (plural grans)

1. (in the plural) adults, grown-ups

• “gran” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gran”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

From Latin grānum.

gran m (plural grans)

1. wheat, corn
2. grain

• granâr

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

gran m or f (apocopate)

1. Apocopic form of grande (“great”)

   Gran Bretaña - Great Britain

   Gran Premio - Grand Prix

It is used, instead of grande, when preceding singular names whose first sound is a consonant

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Portuguese grão, Spanish grano, and Catalan gra.

• gra, grao

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾaŋ]

gran m (plural grans)

1. (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

2. (countable) grain, seed, kernel, bean, a single seed of certain crops
3. (countable) grain, a single similar particle of various substances
4. (historical, countable) grano, Spanish grain, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 50 mg
5. (countable) grain, any of various traditional units of mass notionally based on the weight of various grains
6. (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

7. (countable) pimple, blackhead, a blocked skin pore, especially with a painful and pus-filled inflamation

   Synonym: espiña

8. (uncountable) grain, the linear surface texture of various substances

   Synonym: textura

• gran de corvo
• pedra de gran

• degraer
• degrañar
• Graña
• grañón
• grañudo
• granxa
• Granxa

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: gràn

gran m or f (apocopate)

1. Apocopic form of grande

   Gran Bretagna - Great Britain

   Gran Premio - Grand Prix

   gran turismo - grand touring

From Latin grandis, grandem.

gran m (feminine singular granda, masculine plural gragn, feminine plural grandes)

1. large; great

From French grand.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃/

gran

1. great
2. grown-up
3. big
4. tall

From Danish gran, from Old Norse grǫn (“spruce, pine tree”), from Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, bristles”), fFrom Proto-Indo-European *gʰroH-néh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːn/

gran f or m (definite singular grana or granen, indefinite plural graner, definite plural granene)

1. spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
2. spruce (wood from spruce trees)

• furu (“pine”)

• granskog, grandekket, grantopp

“gran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• gron
• grøn (dialectal)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːn/

gran f (definite singular grana, indefinite plural graner, definite plural granene)

1. spruce (mostly the species Picea abies (Norway spruce)).
2. spruce (wood from spruce trees)

• grene

• “gran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “gran” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Old Occitan gran, from Latin grandis, grandem.

gran

1. big; large

• grand

From Latin grānum.

gran m (plural grans)

1. grain

From Latin grandis, grandem.

gran m or f (plural grans)

1. big; large

• Occitan: gran

• grande

From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

gran

1. big

• Fala: gran
• Galician: gran
• Portuguese: grão

Borrowed from Russian гран (gran).

gran n (plural grane)

1. (obsolete) grain (unit of weight)

• gran in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Old Spanish grant, grand, apocopic forms of grande (“great”). Other apocopic forms inherited from Old Spanish include primer, san and según.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾan/ [ˈɡɾãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: gran

gran m or f (apocopate, standard form grande)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of grande; great.

• The form gran is used only before and within the noun phrase of the modified singular noun. Elsewhere, grande is used instead.

• “gran”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Norse grǫn.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

gran c

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

• gran in Svensk ordbok.

• garn, rang