грана

See also: граня

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /ɡrǎːna/
Hyphenation: гра‧на
Rhymes: -ǎːna

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 economx

Declension

Declension of грана

	singular	plural
nominative	грана	гране
genitive	гране	грана
dative	грани	гранама
accusative	грану	гране
vocative	грано	гране
locative	грани	гранама
instrumental	граном	гранама

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:grana.

References

“грана” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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