granary

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹænəɹi/

Noun

granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)

1. (agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
2. (figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.

Synonyms

• (fertile region): breadbasket, rice bowl

Derived terms

• granary bread

Translations

storage facility

• Armenian: ամբար (hy) (ambar)
• Atayal: khu
• Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) m (hambar)
• Catalan: graner (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筒倉／筒仓 (tǒngcāng), 筒仓 (tǒngcāng), 糧倉／粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng), 粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng)

• Chuvash: ампар (amp̬ar)
• Czech: sýpka f
• Dutch: graanschuur (nl)
• Egyptian: (mẖr)
• Finnish: aitta (fi)
• French: grenier (fr) m
• Galician: hórreo (gl) m, celeiro (gl) m
• German: Getreidespeicher (de) m, Kornhaus n, Kornspeicher (de) m
• Greek: σιταποθήκη (el) m (sitapothíki), σιτοβολώνας (el) m (sitovolónas)

  Ancient: σιτοθήκη f (sitothḗkē)

• Hungarian: magtár (hu), hombár (hu)
• Italian: granaio (it)
• Japanese: 穀倉 (ja) (こくそう, kokusō)
• Kikuyu: ikũmbĩ class 5
• Korean: 곡창 (ko) (gokchang)
• Latin: grānārium n
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• Latvian: klēts f
• Lithuanian: klė́tis f
• Malay: jelapang
• Maori: pātaka pata
• Norman: grain'nie f
• Persian: انبار (fa) (ambâr)
• Plautdietsch: Spikja m
• Polish: spichlerz (pl) m, spichrz (pl) m
• Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
• Quechua: pirwa
• Romanian: grânar (ro)
• Russian: зернохрани́лище (ru) n (zernoxranílišče), амба́р (ru) m (ambár), жи́тница (ru) f (žítnica)
• Spanish: granero (es) m
• Swahili: ghala (sw)
• Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, sädesmagasin n, kornbod (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamalig
• Telugu: కోష్ఠము (te) (kōṣṭhamu)
• Thai: ยุ้ง (th) (yúng), ฉาง (th) (chǎang)
• Turkish: hububat ambarı, tahıl ambarı (tr)
• Ukrainian: шпіхлі́р m (špixlír)

fertile, grain-growing region

• Bulgarian: житница (bg) f (žitnica)
• Catalan: graner (ca) m
• Finnish: vilja-aitta (fi)
• German: Kornkammer (de) f
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• Greek: σιτοβολώνας (el) m (sitovolónas)
• Italian: granaio (it) m
• Russian: жи́тница (ru) f (žítnica)
• Swedish: kornbod (sv) c

See also

• silo
• grain elevator