granat

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡɾəˈnat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡɾaˈnat]

• Audio (Valencia):

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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)

• • almandina
  • andradita
  • grossulària
  • pirop
  • spessartina
  • uvarovita

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

1. past participle of granar

• “granat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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 (plural granat-granat)

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

• grénad (Standard Malay)

• bom tangan (Standard Malay)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.nat/

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• Rhymes: -anat
• Syllabification: gra‧nat

Learned borrowing from Latin grānātum.

granat m inan (related adjective granatowy)

1. pomegranate (fruit of tree of genus Punica)

Borrowed from Italian granata, from Latin granatus.

granat m inan

1. grenade (explosive device)

Borrowed from German Granat, from Latin grānātum.

granat m inan

1. (mineralogy) garnet

Back-formation from granatowy.

granat m inan

1. navy blue

• 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) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

granat m inan (Cyrillic spelling гранат)

1. pomegranate

   Synonyms: mogranj, morski šipak, nar

2. garnet

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. (weaponry) a grenade

   granatkarbin

   grenade launcher (as a stand-alone weapon)

   granattillsats

   grenade launcher (as an attachment to a weapon)

   handgranat

   hand grenade

2. (weaponry) a shell

   granatgevär

   recoilless rifle ("shell rifle")

   granatkastare

   mortar ("shell thrower")

3. (archaic) a pomegranate (fruit)

   Synonym: granatäpple

4. (archaic) a pomegranate (tree)
5. (mineralogy) a garnet, a group of minerals with regular crystals

In technical language, for example in formal names of weapons, "handgranat" seems to be fairly consistently used for hand grenades, to distinguish them from shells and non-handheld grenades. In other contexts, "granat" is often used instead of "handgranat," when clear from context.

• grenadjär

• granat in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• granat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• granat in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• granat in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)