bran

See also brân

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (compare Welsh braen ‘stench’, Irish bréan ‘rancid’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- (compare Latin fragrāre ‘to smell strongly’, Dutch brak ‘hound’).

Noun

bran (countable and uncountable; plural brans)

1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
2. The European carrion crow.

Translations

outside layer of a grain

• Armenian: թեփ (hy) (t’ep’)
• Bulgarian: трици (bg) (tríci) pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麩皮 (cmn), 麸皮 (cmn) (fūpí), 麩 (cmn), 麸 (cmn) (fū)

• Crimean Tatar: kebek
• Czech: otruby (cs) f pl
• Dutch: zemel (nl) m
• Finnish: lese (fi)
• French: son (fr) m
• Georgian: ქატო (ka) (kʻato)
• German: Kleie (de) f
• Greek: πίτουρο (el) (pítouro) n
• Hungarian: korpa (hu)
• Irish: bran (ga) m
• Italian: crusca (it) f, semola (it) f

• Japanese: ふすま (ja) (fusuma) (wheat bran), ぬか (ja) (nuka) (rice bran)
• Korean: 겨 (ko) (gyeo), 기울 (ko) (giul)
• Luxembourgish: Krësch (lb) m
• Macedonian: трица (mk) (tríca) f
• Portuguese: farelo (pt) m
• Romanian: tărâțe (ro) f pl
• Russian: отруби (ru) (ótrubi) f pl, высевки (ru) (výsevki) f pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мекинје (sh) pl

  Roman: mekinje (sh) pl

• Spanish: salvado (es) m, acemite (es) (archaic), afrecho (es) m
• Telugu: తవుడు (te) (tavuDu)
• Vietnamese: cám (vi)
• Welsh: eisin (cy) pl

Anagrams

• barn
• NRAB

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brano, from Proto-Indo-European *u̯er- ‘crow’ (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

Noun

bran m

1. raven

Inflection

  Mutation of bran  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	bran	vran	unchanged	pran	vran
plural	brini	vrini	unchanged	prini	vrini

See also

• frav

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Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brano, from Proto-Indo-European *u̯er- ‘crow’ (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bɹæːn]

Noun

bran m (plural brini, briny)

1. crow

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bran, from Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

Noun

bran m (genitive brain, nominative plural brain)

1. (literary) raven

Declension

Declension of bran

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bran brain Vocative a bhrain a bhrana Genitive brain bran Dative bran brain

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bran na brain Genitive an bhrain na mbran Dative leis an mbran don bhran leis na brain

Synonyms

• fiach

Etymology 2

Noun

bran m (genitive brain, nominative plural brain)

1. bream

Declension

Declension of bran

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bran brain Vocative a bhrain a bhrana Genitive brain bran Dative bran brain

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bran na brain Genitive an bhrain na mbran Dative leis an mbran don bhran leis na brain

Synonyms

• bréan
• deargán

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bran	bhran	mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brano- (“raven”).

Noun

bran m

1. raven

Synonyms

• fiach, trogan

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Slovene

Noun

bran f

1. defense