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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

gran (plural grans)

1. (informal, usually affectionate) a grandmother
2. (rare) a grandfather

Translations

Anagrams

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m sg (feminine singular grana, neuter singular grano, masculine and neuter plural granos, feminine plural granes)

1. big

Asturian

Adjective

gran

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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• grandiós

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

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

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Latin gr?num.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. wheat, corn
2. grain

Related terms

• granâr

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate)

1. Apocopic form of grande

   Gran Bretaña - Great Britain

   Gran Premio - Grand Prix

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese grão, from Latin gr?num. Cognate with Portuguese grão and Spanish grano.

Alternative forms

• gra, grao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???a?]

Noun

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 (a single seed)
3. (countable) grain, particle
4. (countable) a small quantity
   • 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

5. (countable) pimple

   Synonym: espiña

6. (uncountable) grain, texture

   Synonym: textura

Derived terms

• gran de corvo
• pedra de gran

Related terms

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

References

• “grão” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “gran” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran/, [?r?än?]

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate)

1. Apocopic form of grande

   Gran Bretagna - Great Britain

   Gran Premio - Grand Prix

   gran turismo - grand touring

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

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

1. large; great

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Etymology

From French grand

Adjective

gran

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gr?n (“spruce, pine tree”), from Proto-Germanic *gran? (“awn, bristles”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?n- (“edge, end, tip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?n/

Noun

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)

Hypernyms

• furu (“pine”)

Derived terms

• granskog, grandekket, grantopp

References

“gran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gr?n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??n/

Noun

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)

References

“gran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan gran, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

1. big; large

Alternative forms

• grand

Etymology 2

From Latin gr?num.

Noun

gran m (plural grans)

1. grain

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran m or f (plural grans)

1. big; large

Descendants

• Catalan: gran
• Occitan: gran

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• grande

Etymology

From grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

gran

1. big

Descendants

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???an/, [???ãn]

Adjective

gran m or f (apocopate, standard form grande)

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

Usage notes

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gr?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??n/

Noun

gran c

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

Declension

Anagrams

• garn, rang

English

Etymology 1

From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

nan (plural nans)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of maid: a servant girl. [1599]
2. (slang, obsolete) Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual. [1670]
3. (Britain, endearing) Synonym of nursemaid. [1940]
4. (Britain, endearing) Synonym of grandmother. [1955]

   We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

Etymology 2

See at naan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /næn/, /n??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /næn/, /n?n/

Noun

nan (plural nans)

1. Alternative spelling of naan

Anagrams

• ANN, Ann, Ann., ann, ann.

Acehnese

Noun

nan

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?nus, from Ancient Greek ????? (nânos).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nan (feminine nana, masculine plural nans, feminine plural nanes)

1. (attributive) dwarf

Derived terms

• planeta nan

Noun

nan m (plural nans, feminine nana)

1. (mythology) dwarf (a member of a race from folklore)
2. dwarf (a person of short stature, usually as the result of a genetic condition)
3. (folklore) in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head

Derived terms

• nanisme

Further reading

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

Franco-Provençal

Pronunciation

• (Savoyard dialect) IPA^(key): /?n?/
• (Bressan dialect) IPA^(key): /?n??/

Interjection

nan

1. no

Antonyms

• ouè

Adverb

nan

1. no

Antonyms

• ouè

French

Adverb

nan

1. (informal) nah, nope

Synonyms

• non (standard French)

Haitian Creole

Article

nan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

This word is used only when the preceding word is singular and ends with a nasal consonant.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• yo
• yon

Preposition

nan

1. in

Japanese

Romanization

nan

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nan/

Noun

nan m (diminutive nancycko)

1. father

Declension

Coordinate terms

• ma? (“mother”)
• syn (“son”)
• ?owka (“daughter”)

Further reading

• nan in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• nan in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Makolkol

Noun

nan

1. mother

Further reading

• Joshua Arlo, Indigenous language almost extinct, 2 September 2016, LoopPNG

Malecite-Passamaquoddy

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *nya·?anwi.

Numeral

nan

1. five

Mandarin

Romanization

nan (Zhuyin ???)

1. Nonstandard spelling of n?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of n?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Akin to Persian ???? (n?n), See there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??n/

Noun

nan m

1. bread
2. food

   Synonym: xwarin

Etymology 2

Verb

nan

1. to put in, to set, to place
2. to fuck, to copulate, to have sex with

Old English

Etymology

From ne (“not”) +? ?n (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??n/

Determiner

n?n

1. no; not a, not one, not any
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

Pronoun

n?n

1. no one, nobody; none
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: noon
  • English: none
  • Scots: nane

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?n/

Determiner

n?n

1. Alternative form of n?n

Pronoun

n?n

1. Alternative form of n?n

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Papiamentu

Etymology

The third person plural pronoun nan (“they”) and the overall plural noun suffix -nan are unique for Papiamentu and cannot be found in any other language. According to Clements and Parkvall the pronoun nan and it's derived suffix -nan were introduced into the language just in the 1700s because of the grown need for a plural marking. Apparently before the introduction the need for a plural marking was not felt. Just like in other South American languages the suffix originated in the form "kas-nan" literally "house-they" (ac Lenz).

Compare the Curripaco Arawak suffix -na and the Dutch suffix -en.

Searches are being undertaken to find the African connections with the words "iran", "ene", "na", "nan", "inen" and "ane" in the languages Bini, Kwa, Anabonese, Bantu, Kimbundu, Angolar, Fa d'Ambu, Edo and Saotome in the African countries of Sao Tomé, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (see Bartens and Schuchardt). All very improbably.

Pronoun

nan

1. they, third person plural
2. their

See also

• -nan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Conjunction

nan

1. if (subjunctive)

   Nan robh mi beartach, b'urrainn dhomh cheannaich taigh-mòr. - If I were rich, I could buy a mansion.

2. whether (subjunctive)

   Biodh gràdh agam air fhathast nan robh e beartach neo bochd. - I would still love him whether he were rich or poor.

Usage notes

• Before words beginning with b, f, m or p, the form nam is used instead.
• Only used in the conditional tense, otherwise ma is used.
• The negative form is mura.

Etymology 2

Univerbation of an (“in”) +? an (“their”).

Preposition

nan (+ dative, triggers eclipsis)

1. in their

Inflection

Etymology 3

Article

nan

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. genitive plural preceding a consonant (excluding b-, f-, m-, p-)
   2. genitive plural preceding a vowel

Declension

Upper Sorbian

Noun

nan m

1. father

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

According to Ferlus (2009), from *t-rn-a??, with nominalizer -rn- infixed into Proto-Vietic *ta?? (whence ?an (“to weave”)). Further from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t?aa?.

Formationally indentical but independently developed is Proto-West-Bahnaric *trna?? ("thread"), whence Nyaheun nna?? ("thread").

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [na?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [na????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [na????]

Noun

nan

1. bamboo tape (for basketwork); bamboo slat (of a paper fan)

Wolof

Adverb

nan

1. (interrogative) how

See also

• naka

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?n?n]
• Hyphenation: nan

Etymology

Akin to Persian ???? (n?n, “bread”), see there for more.

Alternative forms

• non
• nun

Noun

nan m

1. bread