gren

gren (third-person singular simple present grens, present participle grenning, simple past and past participle grenned)

1. Obsolete spelling of grin.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren
     And snar at all that ever passed by

• Eng'r, Engr, engr., gern

gren m

1. eggs (of silk worm)

From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛːˀn/,

gren c (singular definite grenen, plural indefinite grene)

1. a branch, bough (protrusion of wood from the trunk of a tree)
2. (figuratively) a branch (something that branches from something else)

   I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden.

   In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.

   gren af en slægt, en virksomhed

   branch of a family, a company

• Norwegian Bokmål: gren

gren

1. Alternative form of green

• grein

From Danish gren (“branch, bough”), from Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch, point, part”), from Proto-Germanic *grain-.

gren f or m (definite singular grena or grenen, indefinite plural grener, definite plural grenene)

1. a branch (of a tree etc.)

• abildgren
• olivengren
• palmegren

• “gren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse grein

gren c

1. a branch (on a tree or bush)

   Träd har grenar och kvistar

   Trees have branches and twigs

   Det hänger ett äpple på grenen

   There is an apple hanging on the branch

   Hon bröt av en gren från trädet

   She broke off a branch from the tree

2. a branch (part that splits off like a branch, concretely or abstractly)

   grenuttag

   power strip ("branch outlet")

   1. a branch (line of family descent)

      den finska grenen av familjen

      the Finnish branch of the family

3. a branch (subdivision)

   Geometri är en gren av matematiken

   Geometry is a branch of mathematics

   den norska grenen av organisationen

   the Norwegian branch of the organization

   1. (sports) an event, a discipline

      Längdhopp och tresteg är friidrottsgrenar

      Long jump and triple jump are track and field events

   2. an event (one of several contests that combine to make up a competition – only put separately from the sense above since "discipline" sounds off here)

      I nästa gren ska de tävlande äta tio kanelbullar så snabbt de kan

      In the next event, the contestants will be eating ten cinnamon buns as fast as they can

4. (usually in the definite) a crotch (area where the legs split from the torso, or the corresponding area on clothing)

   sparka någon i grenen

   kick someone in the crotch

   Byxorna har hål i grenen

   The pants have a hole in the crotch

   Synonym: skrev

• friidrottsgren
• grenuttag
• idrottsgren
• paradgren
• trädgren

• förgrena
• grena

Both kvist (“twig”) and gren (“branch”) often appear in Swedish last names.

• disciplin
• klyka
• kvist (“twig”)

• gren in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gren in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gren in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from English grain.

• IPA^(key):

gren (nominative plural grens)

1. grain (British English: corn)

• glen (obsolete spelling, l > r)

• plan

• grenabarak
• grenöp

• gran