Noun: gran
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gran |
| Plural m | grans |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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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) [1396, M. Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV; page 449:]
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Tamen bay ese tabeque
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meu velliño, pois fungàs
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que cada grao de èl gorenta,
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con eso as fremas sairàn. (Also there it goes this tobacco,
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my little old man, since you snivel:
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each grain of it is delectable,
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with this phlegms will go out.) [1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:]
Nouns inflected like gran
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Portuguese grão, Spanish grano, and Catalan gra. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
grão', Latin Nouns '
grānum', Portuguese Nouns '
grão', Spanish Nouns '
grano', Catalan Nouns '
gra'.
Verbs referencing "gran"
Spanish Nouns
grano, Portuguese Nouns
grão.
Translations