magrana

Catalan

Etymology

A hybrid of Latin mille-grana (“a thousand seeds”) + malogranatum (“seeded fruit”), from malum + granatum. Compare Galician milgranda, Portuguese milgrada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məˈɣɾa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [maˈɣɾa.na]

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Noun

magrana f (plural magranes)

1. pomegranate

Derived terms

• magraner
• magraneta borda
• magraneta de corb

Further reading

• “magrana”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007