bran

From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

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.

From Welsh brân or Cornish bran?

bran (plural brans)

1. (ornithology) The European carrion crow.

•   bran on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Barn, NRAB, barn, N-bar

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

bran m (plural brini)

1. crow, raven

g=m

• frav

From Vulgar Latin *brandus, from Frankish *brand.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɾan]

bran m (plural brans)

1. broadsword

• brandar

• “bran” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bran”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “bran” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bran” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna, Slovene vrana.

• IPA^(key): [bɹæːn]

bran m (plural brini or briny)

1. crow

• IPA^(key): [ˈbran]

bran f

1. genitive plural of brána

bran f

1. genitive plural of brány

From Old Irish bran, from Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna, Slovene vrana.)

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

1. (literary) raven

   Synonym: fiach

• branán m (“raven; a principal piece in ancient board-game set; prince”)

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bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

1. bream (Abramis brama)

   Synonyms: bréan, deargán

bran m (genitive singular bran)

1. Clipping of bran (mór) (“bran”).
2. Clipping of bran beag (“pollard”).

From English bran.

bran m (genitive singular bran)

1. bran

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bran”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bran (‘raven’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bran”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bran”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• branne, bren

From Old French bren, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).

• IPA^(key): /bran/, /brɛn/, /braːn/

bran

1. The ground husk of wheat

• English: bran
• Yola: bran

• “brā̆n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

bran oblique singular, m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural bran)

1. Alternative form of branc

From Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

• IPA^(key): /bran/

bran m (genitive brain or broin, nominative plural brain or broin)

1. raven

   Synonyms: fiach, trogan

• Irish: bran

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Slavic *bornь. Cognate with Polish broń.

• IPA^(key): /bráːn/

brȃn f

1. defense

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bran

1. genitive dual/plural of brana

• “bran”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Borrowed from English bran.

bran m (uncountable)

1. bran (broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain), husks

• bran gwenith (“wheat-bran”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bran”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Middle English brān, from Old French bran, bren, from Gaulish brennos.

• IPA^(key): /bɾɔːn/
• Homophone: broan

bran

1. bran
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:

     Aar was a gooude puddeen maate o bran.

     There was a good pudding made of bran.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 93