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Catalan
Etymology
From granar + -ada. Compare Spanish granada, French grenade.
Pronunciation
Adjective
granada
- feminine singular of granat
Noun
granada f (plural granades)
- grenade (small explosive device)
Participle
granada f sg
- feminine singular of granat
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish granada, from Latin (mālum) granātum (literally “apple with many seeds”).
Noun
granada (Badlit spelling ᜄ᜔ᜇᜈᜇ)
- pomegranate (Punica granatum)
- (military) hand grenade
- (weaponry) shell
Galician
Etymology
From the feminine of Latin grānātum (“pomegranate”), from grānātus (“having many seeds”), from grānum (“seed, grain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (standard) /ɡɾaˈnada/
- IPA(key): (gheada) /ħɾaˈnada/
- Rhymes: -ada
- Hyphenation: gra‧na‧da
Noun
granada f (plural granadas)
- pomegranate (fruit)
- hand grenade
Further reading
Maguindanao
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish granada.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA(key): /ɡɾaˈnada/
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: gra‧na‧da
Noun
granada
- grenade
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French grenade.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
granada f (plural granadas)
- hand grenade (small explosive device)
- Synonym: granada de mão
- shell (artillery)
- (mineralogy) garnet (mineral group)
- Synonym: granate
Derived terms
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɾaˈnada/
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: gra‧na‧da
Etymology 1
From the feminine of granado, from Latin (mālum) granātum (literally “apple with many seeds”); compare granado. Compare Italian melagranata.
Noun
granada f (plural granadas)
- pomegranate (fruit)
- hand grenade
- shell (artillery)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Latin granātum.
Adjective
granada f sg
- feminine singular of granado
Participle
granada f sg
- feminine singular of granado
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish granada (“grenade”), feminine of granado, from Latin (mālum) granātum (literally “apple with many seeds”). Doublet of granate.
Pronunciation
Noun
granada (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜇᜈᜇ)
- grenade (explosive device)
- pomegranate (Punica granatum)
Further reading