grenade

See also: Grenade, grénade, Grenåde, and grenadé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum (“apple”) + granatum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈneɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

grenade (plural grenades)

1. A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
2. (obsolete) A pomegranate.
3. (heraldry) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
4. (slang) An unattractive girl.

Hyponyms

• concussion grenade
• flash grenade
• fragmentation grenade, frag grenade
• grenado
• hand grenade
  • Mills bomb
  • pineapple grenade, pineapple
  • potato-masher grenade, potato masher
• rifle grenade
• rocket-propelled grenade, rocket propelled grenade
• rubber ball blast grenade
• smoke grenade
• stingball grenade
• stun grenade

Derived terms

• fall on a grenade
• fire grenade
• grenade launcher
• grenadelike
• grenadier
• grenadine
• jump on a grenade
• math grenade

 

Related terms

• garnet
• grenado
• pomegranate

Translations

pomegranate — see pomegranate

small explosive device

• Albanian: granatë (sq) f
• Arabic: قُنْبُلَة f (qunbula), قُنْبُلَة يَدَوِيَّة f (qunbula yadawiyya)
• Armenian: նռնակ (hy) (nṙnak)
• Azerbaijani: qumbara (az), qranat (az)
• Belarusian: грана́та f (hranáta)
• Bengali: গ্রেনেড (bn) (greneḍ)
• Bulgarian: грана́та (bg) f (granáta)
• Burmese: လက်ပစ်ဗုံး (my) (lakpacbum:)
• Catalan: granada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榴彈／榴弹 (zh) (liúdàn), (specifically, hand grenade) 手榴彈／手榴弹 (zh) (shǒuliúdàn), 手雷 (zh) (shǒuléi)

• Czech: granát (cs) m
• Danish: granat (da) c
• Dutch: granaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: grenado (eo)
• Estonian: granaat
• Finnish: kranaatti (fi), heite (fi)
• French: grenade (fr) f
• Georgian: ყუმბარა (q̇umbara)
• German: Granate (de) f
• Greek: χειροβομβίδα (el) f (cheirovomvída)
• Hebrew: רִמּוֹן / רימון (he) m (rimón)
• Hindi: हथगोला m (hathgolā), ग्रेनेड (greneḍ)
• Hungarian: kézigránát (hu), gránát (hu)
• Icelandic: handsprengja (is) f
• Ido: grenado (io)
• Indonesian: granat (id)
• Irish: gránáid f
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 擲弾 (ja) (てきだん, tekidan), 榴弾 (ja) (りゅうだん, ryūdan), グレネード (gurenēdo), 手榴弾 (ja) (しゅりゅうだん, shuryūdan, てりゅうだん, teryūdan)
• Kazakh: граната (granata)
• Khmer: គ្រាប់បែកដៃ (krŏəp baek day), គ្រាប់បែក (km) (krŏəp baek)
• Korean: 수류탄(手榴彈) (ko) (suryutan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نارِنجۆک (narincok)

  Northern Kurdish: qumbere (ku), narincok (ku)

• Kyrgyz: граната (ky) (granata)
• Lao: ລູກແຕກ (lūk tǣk), ລູກລະເບີດ (lūk la bœ̄t)
• Latvian: granāta f
• Lithuanian: granata f
• Lower Sorbian: granata f, granata, granata f
• Luxembourgish: Granat f
• Macedonian: грана́та f (granáta), кашика́ра f (kašikára)
• Malay: bom tangan
• Maltese: granata f
• Marathi: ग्रेनेड m (greneḍ), हातगोळा m (hātgoḷā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гранат (mn) (granat)

• Norman: grénade f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: granat m

• Pashto: ګرانادا f (granādā)
• Persian: نارنجک (fa) (nâranjak, nârenjak)
• Polish: granat (pl) m
• Portuguese: granada (pt) f
• Romanian: grenadă (ro) f
• Russian: грана́та (ru) f (granáta), лимо́нка (ru) f (limónka) (colloquial, certain models, especially shaped as a lemon)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грана́та f

  Roman: granáta (sh) f

• Slovak: granát (sk) m
• Slovene: granata f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: granata f

• Spanish: granada (es) f
• Swedish: granat (sv) c
• Tagalog: granada
• Tajik: норанҷак (noranjak)
• Tatar: граната (granata)
• Thai: ระเบิดมือ (th) (rá-bə̀ət-mʉʉ)
• Turkish: el bombası
• Ukrainian: грана́та f (hranáta)
• Urdu: گرینیڈ (greneḍ)
• Uyghur: گرانات (granat)
• Uzbek: granata (uz)
• Vietnamese: lựu đạn (vi)
• Yiddish: גראַנאַט (granat)

Verb

grenade (third-person singular simple present grenades, present participle grenading, simple past and past participle grenaded)

1. To use grenade(s) upon.
   • 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:

     Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.

   • 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:

     They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.

Translations

to use grenades

• Finnish: heittää kranaatilla
• French: grenader (fr)
• German: no equivalent term in German, but see Granaten verwenden
• Romanian: grenada

Anagrams

• Redange, agender, angered, derange, en garde, enraged, grandee

French

Etymology

Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁə.nad/

• Audio:

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Noun

grenade f (plural grenades)

1. pomegranate
2. grenade
3. insignia, badge
4. (heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)

Derived terms

• grenadier
• grenadine

Further reading

• “grenade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dérange, dérangé

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡreˈnade]

Noun

grenade f pl

1. inflection of grenadă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Swedish

Verb

grenade

1. past indicative of grena