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Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
гра́на • (grána) m inan
- genitive singular of гран (gran)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grana (cognate with dialectal or obsolete Bulgarian гран (gran)/гранка (granka)), from Proto-Indo-European, cognate with German Granne (“awn”), Old English granu (“moustache”) and Old Norse grǫn (“a pine tree”) (whence Danish gran (“spruce”)). Compare Old Norse grein (“branch”) (whence Danish gren).
Pronunciation
Noun
гра́на f (Latin spelling grána)
- branch
- сломљена грана ― a broken branch
- боље врабац у руци него голуб на грани ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- field, branch
- грана знаности/науке ― a branch of science
- туризам је стратешка господарска грана ― Tourism is a strategic branch of the economy.
Declension
Quotations
References
- “грана”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024