# granary
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain +‎ -ary. Doublet of garner.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɹænəɹi/
* (US, dialectal) IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪnəɹi/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: gran‧a‧ry

### Noun

granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)
* (agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
** 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat‎, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
** 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:[I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.
* (figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.

#### Synonyms

* (fertile region): breadbasket

#### Hypernyms

* (fertile region): food bowl

#### Hyponyms

* (fertile region): rice bowl

#### Derived terms

* granary bread
* granary loaf
* granary tree
* granary weevil
* rat in a granary

#### Translations

Albanian: hambar (sq) m
Arabic: مَخْزَن الْحُبُوب m (maḵzan al-ḥubūb), شُونَة f (šūna)
Juba Arabic: gugu
Armenian: ամբար (hy) (ambar), շտեմարան (hy) (štemaran)
Atayal: khu
Azerbaijani: anbar (az)
Basque: aletegi
Belarusian: збожжасхо́вішча n (zbožžasxóvišča), сві́ран m (svíran), клець f (kljecʹ), жы́тніца f (žýtnica), амба́р m (ambár)
Bhojpuri: बखारी (bakhārī)
Bulgarian: хамба́р (bg) m (hambár), жи́тница (bg) f (žítnica)
Burmese: စည့် (my) (cany.), ကျီ (my) (kyi), စပါးကျီ (my) (ca.pa:kyi)
Catalan: graner (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 筒倉 / 筒仓 (zh) (tǒngcāng), 糧倉 / 粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng)
Chuvash: ампар (amp̬ar), кӗлет (kĕlet)
Czech: sýpka f
Danish: lade (da) c
Dutch: graanschuur (nl), spieker (nl) m
Egyptian: (mẖr)
Esperanto: garbejo (eo), grenejo
Estonian: ait (et)
Farefare: bãarɛ
Finnish: aitta (fi)
French: grenier (fr) m
Galician: hórreo (gl) m, celeiro (gl) m
Georgian: ბეღელი (ka) (beɣeli)
German: Getreidespeicher (de) m, Kornhaus n, Kornspeicher (de) m, Speicher (de) m
Greek: σιταποθήκη (el) m (sitapothíki), σιτοβολώνας (el) m (sitovolónas)
Ancient: σιτοθήκη f (sitothḗkē)
Hebrew: מַמְּגוּרָה (he) f (mamgurá), אָסָם (he) m (asám)
Hindi: धान्यागार m (dhānyāgār), अन्नागार m (annāgār), बखारी (hi) f (bakhārī)
Hungarian: magtár (hu), hombár (hu)
Indonesian: lumbung (id)
Italian: granaio (it)
Japanese: 穀倉 (ja) (こくそう, kokusō)
Kanakanabu: riong
Kazakh: қамба (qamba), қойма (qoima), албар (albar)
Khiamniungan Naga: pêi
Khmer: តឹក (km) (tək), ជង្រុក (km) (cŭəngruk), កោដ្ឋ (km) (kaot)
Kikuyu: ikũmbĩ class 5
Korean: 곡창(穀倉) (ko) (gokchang)
Kyrgyz: кампа (ky) (kampa), амбар (ky) (ambar)
Lao: ຍຸ້ງ (nyung), ສາງ (lo) (sāng), ເຍັຽ (nyīa)
Latin: grānārium n
Latvian: klēts f, klēts m
Lithuanian: klė́tis f
Macedonian: а́мбар m (ámbar)
Malay: jelapang
Maori: pātaka pata
Mari:
Western Mari: клӓт (klät)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: амбаар (mn) (ambaar), агуулах (mn) (aguulax)
Moore: baoore
Norman: grain'nie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: låve (no) m
Occitan: granièr (oc) m
Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar), مخزن (mahzen)
Persian: انبار (fa) (anbâr), انبار غله (fa) (anbâr-e ğalle)
Plautdietsch: Spikja m
Polish: spichlerz (pl) m, spichrz (pl) m, śpichlerz m
Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
Quechua: pirwa
Romanian: grânar (ro)
Russian: зернохрани́лище (ru) n (zernoxranílišče), амба́р (ru) m (ambár), жи́тница (ru) f (žítnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жи̏тница f, а̏мба̄р m, ха̏мба̄р m
Roman: žȉtnica (sh) f, ȁmbār (sh) m, hȁmbār (sh) m
Slovak: sýpka (sk) f
Slovene: kašča f
Spanish: granero (es) m
Swahili: ghala (sw)
Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, sädesmagasin (sv) n, kornbod (sv) c, lada (sv) c
Tagalog: kamalig
Tajik: анбор (anbor), анбори ғалла (anbor-i ġalla)
Tarifit: tasraft f
Tatar: амбар (ambar), келәт (tt) (kelät)
Telugu: కోష్ఠము (te) (kōṣṭhamu)
Thai: ยุ้ง (th) (yúng), ฉาง (th) (chǎang)
Turkish: hububat ambarı, tahıl ambarı (tr)
Turkmen: ammar (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎒𐎎 (ảsm)
Ukrainian: шпіхлі́р m (špixlír), зерносхо́вище n (zernosxóvyšče), жи́тниця f (žýtnycja), комо́ра (uk) f (komóra), амба́р (uk) m (ambár), гамазе́й m (hamazéj), гамазе́я f (hamazéja), си́панець m (sýpanecʹ)
Uzbek: ombor (uz), omborxona (uz)
Vietnamese: kho thóc, kho ngũ cốc
Welsh: graneri m, granar m, llofft yr ŷd f :

#### See also

* grain elevator
* silo

### References

* ↑ Meredith, L. P. (1872) “Granary”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech‎, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., page 24.