bran

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• Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈbɹæn/
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• rhymes with -æn
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• CMU ARPABET: B R AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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English surname, variant of Brann.

From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).

From a Celtic source; compare Welsh brân and Cornish bran.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: hime — outside layer of a grain
• Arabic: نُخَالَة (nuḵāla) — outside layer of a grain
• Arabic: نخّالة (nəḵḵæla) — outside layer of a grain
• Armenian: թեփ (tʻepʻ) — outside layer of a grain
• Azerbaijani: kəpək — outside layer of a grain
• Basque: zahi — outside layer of a grain
• Belarusian: во́труб'е (vótrubʺje) — outside layer of a grain
• Belarusian: вы́сеўкі (výsjewki) — outside layer of a grain
• Bhojpuri: चोकर (cōkar) — outside layer of a grain
• Central Bikol: ata — outside layer of a grain
• Bulgarian: три́ци (tríci) — outside layer of a grain
• Catalan: bren — outside layer of a grain
• Catalan: segó — outside layer of a grain
• Catalan: esquellat — outside layer of a grain
• Chinese Mandarin: 麩皮 /麸皮 (fūpí) — outside layer of a grain
• Chinese Mandarin: 麩 /麸 (fū) — outside layer of a grain
• Chinese Mandarin: 糠 (kāng) — outside layer of a grain
• Crimean Tatar: kebek — outside layer of a grain
• Czech: otruby — outside layer of a grain
• Danish: klid — outside layer of a grain
• Dutch: zemel — outside layer of a grain
• Esperanto: brano — outside layer of a grain
• Finnish: lese — outside layer of a grain
• French: son — outside layer of a grain
• Galician: relón — outside layer of a grain
• Galician: muíña — outside layer of a grain
• Galician: farelo — outside layer of a grain
• Georgian: ქატო (kaṭo) — outside layer of a grain
• German: Kleie — outside layer of a grain
• Greek: πίτουρο (pítouro) — outside layer of a grain
• Ancient Greek: πίτυρα (pítura) — outside layer of a grain
• Hebrew: סובים (subím) — outside layer of a grain
• Hindi: चोकर (cokar) — outside layer of a grain
• Hungarian: korpa — outside layer of a grain
• Indonesian: dedak — outside layer of a grain
• Irish: bran — outside layer of a grain
• Italian: crusca — outside layer of a grain
• Italian: semola — outside layer of a grain
• Japanese: 麸 (fusuma) — outside layer of a grain
• Japanese: 糠 (nuka) — outside layer of a grain
• Kannada: ತವುಡು (tavuḍu) — outside layer of a grain
• Khmer: កន្ទក់ (kɑɑkɑntŭək) — outside layer of a grain
• Korean: 겨 (gyeo) — outside layer of a grain
• Korean: 기울 (giul) — outside layer of a grain
• Central Kurdish: سۆس (sos) — outside layer of a grain
• Central Kurdish: کەپەک (kepek) — outside layer of a grain
• Northern Kurdish: sivî — outside layer of a grain
• Southern Kurdish: کەڵپ (kellp) — outside layer of a grain
• Southern Kurdish: کەڵپەک (kellpek) — outside layer of a grain
• Latin: acus — outside layer of a grain
• Latin: āplūda — outside layer of a grain
• Latin: canicae — outside layer of a grain
• Luxembourgish: Krësch — outside layer of a grain
• Macedonian: три́ци (tríci) — outside layer of a grain
• Malayalam: തവിട് (taviṭŭ) — outside layer of a grain
• Māori: pāpapa — outside layer of a grain
• Mongolian: хэвэг (xeveg) — outside layer of a grain
• Mongolian: хивэг (xiveg) — outside layer of a grain
• Mongolian: шигшдэс (šigšdes) — outside layer of a grain
• Persian: سبوس (sabus) — outside layer of a grain
• Plautdietsch: Kjlie — outside layer of a grain
• Polish: otręby — outside layer of a grain
• Portuguese: farelo — outside layer of a grain
• Romanian: tărâțe — outside layer of a grain
• Russian: о́труби (ótrubi) — outside layer of a grain
• Russian: вы́севки (výsevki) — outside layer of a grain
• Serbo-Croatian: мекиње — outside layer of a grain
• Serbo-Croatian: mekinje — outside layer of a grain
• Slovak: otruby — outside layer of a grain
• Slovene: otrobi — outside layer of a grain
• Spanish: salvado — outside layer of a grain
• Spanish: acemite — outside layer of a grain
• Spanish: afrecho — outside layer of a grain
• Sundanese: huut — outside layer of a grain
• Swedish: kli — outside layer of a grain
• Tagalog: darak — outside layer of a grain
• Tamil: தவிடு (taviṭu) — outside layer of a grain
• Tashelhit: ⵉⵍⴰⵎⵎⵏ (ilammn) — outside layer of a grain
• Telugu: తవుడు (tavuḍu) — outside layer of a grain
• Thai: รํา (ram) — outside layer of a grain
• Turkish: kepek — outside layer of a grain
• Ukrainian: ви́сівки (výsivky) — outside layer of a grain
• Uyghur: كىپەك (kipek) — outside layer of a grain
• Uyghur: توپان (topan) — outside layer of a grain
• Vietnamese: cám — outside layer of a grain
• Walloon: laton — outside layer of a grain
• Walloon: latons — outside layer of a grain
• Walloon: grus — outside layer of a grain
• Welsh: eisin — outside layer of a grain