granat

Named after the pomegranate fruit. Derived from granar. Cf. granada and magrana. Compare also French French grenat.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ɡɾəˈnat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈnat/

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• Rhymes: -at

granat (feminine granada, masculine plural granats, feminine plural granades)

1. garnet

granat m (plural granats)

1. garnet (the gem and the color)

granat m (feminine granada, masculine plural granats, feminine plural granades)

1. past participle of granar

• “granat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

granat c (singular definite granaten, plural indefinite granater)

1. grenade
2. garnet

• (grenade): håndgranat

• “granat” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Dutch granaat, from Middle Dutch garnate, grenate, from Old French grenat, from Latin pomus granatus (“seeded apple”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡra.nat̚/, [ˈɡranat̚], [ɡə̆ˈra.nat̚]
• Hyphenation: gra‧nat

granat (first-person possessive granatku, second-person possessive granatmu, third-person possessive granatnya)

1. (military) grenade: a small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.

• “granat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.nat/

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• Rhymes: -anat
• Syllabification: gra‧nat

Ultimately derived from Latin granatum (“pomegranate”).

granat m inan

1. pomegranate, fruit of tree of genus Punica

Borrowed from Italian granata (“grenade, pomegranate, maroon”), from Latin granatus (“having many seeds or grains”).

granat m inan

1. grenade (explosive device)
2. (mineralogy) garnet
   1. navy blue

See above.

• granat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• granat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈnat/

granat n (plural granate)

1. garnet

• granat in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

granat m (Cyrillic spelling гранат)

1. pomegranate
2. garnet

• (pomegranate): mogranj, morski šipak, nar

The weapon and mineral are named after the fruit. Latin pomum granatum means an apple with many seeds, from Latin granum (“seed”). Spanish influence formed the French grenade, which became granat in German, Danish, and Swedish. Used in Swedish since 1578 (fruit, the compound granatäpple already in 1541), 1568 (mineral), 1623 (weapon).

granat c

1. (archaic) a pomegranate (fruit)
2. (archaic) a pomegranate (tree)
3. (mineralogy) a garnet, a group of minerals with regular crystals
4. grenade (weapon)

• granatäpple
• handgranat

• granat in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)