грана
See also: граня
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *grana (cognate with dialectal or obsolete Bulgarian гран (gran)/гранка (granka)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European, cognate with German Granne (“awn”), Old English granu (“moustache”) and Old Norse grǫn (“a pine tree”) (whence Danish gran (“spruce”)). Compare Old Norse grein (“branch”) (whence Danish gren).
Pronunciation
Noun
гра́на f (Latin spelling grána)
- branch
- сломљена грана ― a broken branch
- боље врабац у руци него голуб на грани ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- field, branch
- грана знаности/науке ― a branch of science
- туризам је стратешка господарска грана ― tourism is a strategic branch of the economx
Declension
Declension of грана
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:grana.
References
- “грана” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Categories:
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Serbo-Croatian/ǎːna
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples