pran

See also: prań and prán

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French prende, from French prendre (“take”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɣã/

Verb

pran

1. take

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French prendre.

Verb

pran (medial form pran)

1. to take

Scots

Alternative forms

• pron

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pran]

Noun

pran (plural prans)

1. crumb, fragment, splinter
2. mess, hodgepodge
3. the residue of oat husks and oatmeal after milling

Verb

pran (third-person singular simple present prans, present participle prannin, simple past and past participle prannit)

1. to crush, squeeze, compress
2. to pound, mash, grind, hurt severely

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

pran (Cyrillic spelling пран)

1. passive past participle of prati

Spanish

Etymology

Allegedly an acronym for preso rematado asesino nato ("prisoner finished, killer born").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾan/ [ˈpɾãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pran

Noun

pran m (plural pranes)

1. (Venezuela) drug lord; baron; big cheese of criminal organisation
   • 2012, Roberto Briceño-León et al., Violencia e institucionalidad: Informe del Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia 2012‎^[1], page 159:

     En ese contexto por supuesto que no es la ley lo que rige el comportamiento de los individuos, sino la fuerza. Por eso el Pran (Preso Rematado Asesino Nato) se impone con la amenaza y la violencia en ese territorio de hombres amontonados y abandonados.

     In that context, of course, it is not the law that governs individual behavior but force. Therefore the Pran (Prisoner Finished, Killer Born) imposes himself with threats and violence upon that landscape of heaped-up and abandoned men.