grana

grana

1. plural of granum

• Nagra, Ragan, argan, ranga

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈɡɾa.na]

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Inherited from Latin grāna, plural of grānum (“grain”).

grana f (plural granes)

1. seed

   Synonym: llavor

• gra
• magrana

grana m (plural granes)

1. cochineal

   Synonym: cotxinilla

2. scarlet, carmine (color/colour)

   Synonym: carmí

• blaugrana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grana

1. inflection of granar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “grana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grana”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “grana” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: grà‧na

From Latin grāna, from grānum (“grain”).

grana f (plural grane)

1. grain
2. (figurative, informal) trouble, nuisance

   Synonyms: fastidio, noia, seccatura

• grano

Ellipsis of formaggio di grana.

grana m (invariable)

1. a cheese similar to parmesan

   Synonym: parmigiano

Perhaps from grano.

grana f (plural grane)

1. (informal) cash

   Synonym: soldi

• Argan, nagra, ragna

grāna

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of grānum

• grana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• granen

grana m or f

1. definite feminine singular of gran

grana f

1. definite singular of gran

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: gra‧na

grana

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of grany

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
• Hyphenation: gra‧na

Borrowed from Italian grana (“cash < grain”), from Latin granum (“grain”). Compare grão.

grana f (uncountable)

1. (slang) money; cash; dough

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro

grana

1. inflection of granar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited 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”) ( > Danish gran (“spruce”)). Compare Old Norse grein (“branch”) ( > Danish gren).

• IPA^(key): /ɡrǎːna/
• Hyphenation: gra‧na
• Rhymes: -ǎːna

grána f (Cyrillic spelling гра́на)

1. branch

   slomljena grana ― a broken branch

   bolje vrabac u ruci nego golub na grani ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

2. field, branch

   grana znanosti/nauke ― a branch of science

   Turizam je strateška gospodarska grana. ― Tourism is a strategic branch of the economy.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:grana.

• “grana” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾana/ [ˈɡɾa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: gra‧na

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grana

1. inflection of granar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From granar +‎ -a.

grana f (plural granas)

1. seeding (event of a plant's production of seeds)

From grano +‎ -a, from Latin grānum.

grana f (plural granas)

1. cochineal
2. kermes (insect genus)
3. burgundy, dark red (color/colour)
   • 1569, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia del Oso Juan 19:2:

     Y los ſoldados entretexieron de eſpinas vna corona, y puſieronla ſobre ſu cabeça, y viſtieronlo de vna ropa de grana.

     And the soldiers interwove a crown out of thorns, and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a burgundy robe

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