# grana
## English
### Noun

grana
* plural of granum

### Anagrams

* Nagra, Ragan, argan, ranga

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.na]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

grana f (plural granes)
* seed
    Synonym: llavor

##### Related terms

* gra
* magrana

#### Noun

grana m (plural granes)
* cochineal
    Synonym: cotxinilla
* scarlet, carmine (color/colour)
    Synonym: carmí

##### Derived terms

* blaugrana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

grana
* inflection of granar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “grana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “grana”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡra.na/
* Rhymes: -ana
* Hyphenation: grà‧na

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

grana f (plural grane)
* grain
* (figurative, informal) trouble, nuisance
    Synonyms: fastidio, noia, seccatura

##### Related terms

* grano

### Etymology 2

Ellipsis of formaggio di grana.

#### Noun

grana m (invariable)
* a cheese similar to parmesan
    Synonym: parmigiano

### Etymology 3

Perhaps from grano.

#### Noun

grana f (plural grane)
* (informal) cash
    Synonym: soldi

### Anagrams

* Argan, nagra, ragna

## Latin
### Noun

grāna
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of grānum

### References

* 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)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* granen

### Noun

grana m or f
* definite feminine singular of gran

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

grana f
* definite singular of gran

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡra.na/
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: gra‧na

### Participle

grana
* feminine nominative/vocative singular of grany

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ̃.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ̃.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ.nɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ.nɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.nɐ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
* Hyphenation: gra‧na

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

grana f (uncountable)
* (slang) money; cash; dough
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

grana
* inflection of granar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡrǎːna/
* Hyphenation: gra‧na
* Rhymes: -ǎːna

### Noun

grána f (Cyrillic spelling гра́на)
* 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
* field, branch
    grana znanosti/nauke ― a branch of science
    Turizam je strateška gospodarska grana. ― Tourism is a strategic branch of the economy.

#### Quotations

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

### Further reading

* “grana”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾana/ [ˈɡɾa.na]
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: gra‧na

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

grana
* inflection of granar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2

From granar +‎ -a.

#### Noun

grana f (plural granas)
* seeding (event of a plant's production of seeds)

### Etymology 3

From grano +‎ -a, from Latin grānum.

#### Noun

grana f (plural granas)
* cochineal
* kermes (insect genus)
* 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

##### Derived terms

* azulgrana

### Further reading

* “grana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10