different between guan vs gran

English

Etymology

From American Spanish, from Kuna kwama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?n/

Noun

guan (plural guans)

1. Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.
   • 2000, Daniel M. Brooks, Stuart D. Strahl, Curassows, Guans and Chachalacas: With Spanish and Portuguese Translations, page 8,

     The 'true' (Penelope) guans also occur at a range of altitudes but like most species of cracids, are mostly restricted to forest, both montane and lowland. Piping-guans (Pipile) are primarily lowland species, whereas numerous monospecific (single-species genus) taxa of guans (i.e. Aburria, Penelopina, Oreophasis) are restricted to montane environments.

   • 2002, Kent H. Redford, Peter Feinsinger, 17: The half-empty forest: sustainable use and the ecology of interactions, John D. Reynolds (editor), Conservation of Exploited Species, page 381,

     Most guans move among only the most rewarding trees, those having the largest fruit crops and/or the greatest reward per fruit. Nevertheless, solitary individuals and some guan groups - as well as the first-mentioned guans, once they deplete the fruit crops in the most popular trees - are stuck with the less rewarding trees.

   • 2010, Carrol L. Henderson, Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, page 40,

     The Crested Guan is a large, brown, turkeylike bird most frequently seen peering down from the treetops as it searches for fruit and leaves that make up its diet. As its name implies, this bird has a feathered crest that is frequently raised as it relates to nearby guans or to potential danger.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ANUG, Aung, UNGA, guna

Mandarin

Romanization

guan

1. Nonstandard spelling of gu?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gu?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of guàn.

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.

Volapük

Noun

guan (uncountable guans)

1. guano

Declension

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