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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Shortening of transgender, or (jocularly or seriously) a back-formation from trans mistaking it for a plural noun.
Noun
[edit]tran (plural trans)
- (informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tran.
Etymology 2
[edit]Shortening.
Noun
[edit]tran (plural trans)
- Clipping of transmission.
Anagrams
[edit]Drehu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tran
- to plant
References
[edit]- Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
- Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German trān, of Old Saxon verb trahan. Akin to German Träne (“tear”) and Tran (“whale oil”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tran f or m (definite singular (feminine) trana or (masculine) tranen)
- (chiefly uncountable) cod liver oil
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “tran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tran m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of tran
Derived terms
[edit]adjective
Further reading
[edit]Categories:
- English back-formations
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English informal terms
- English offensive terms
- English humorous terms
- English clippings
- en:People
- en:Transgender
- English rebracketings
- Drehu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Drehu lemmas
- Drehu verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Middle Low German
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Saxon
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns with multiple genders
- Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns
- nn:Fats and oils
- nn:Liquids
- Polish terms borrowed from German
- Polish terms derived from German
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/an
- Rhymes:Polish/an/1 syllable
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Fats and oils