granary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain +‎ -ary. Doublet of garner.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹan(ə)ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹænəɹi/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪnəɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: gran‧a‧ry

Noun

granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)

2. (agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
   • 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat‎^[2], Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:

     For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.

   • 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:

     [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.

3. (figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.

Synonyms

• (fertile region): breadbasket

Hypernyms

• (fertile region): food bowl

Hyponyms

• (fertile region): rice bowl

Derived terms

• granary bread
• granary loaf
• granary tree
• granary weevil
• rat in a granary

 

Translations

storage facility

• Albanian: hambar (sq) m
• Arabic: مَخْزَن الْحُبُوب m (maḵzan al-ḥubūb), شُونَة f (šūna)

  Juba Arabic: gugu

• Armenian: ամբար (hy) (ambar), շտեմարան (hy) (štemaran)
• Atayal: khu
• Azerbaijani: anbar (az)
• Basque: aletegi
• Belarusian: збожжасхо́вішча n (zbožžasxóvišča), сві́ран m (svíran), клець f (kljecʹ), жы́тніца f (žýtnica), амба́р m (ambár)
• Bhojpuri: बखारी (bakhārī)
• Bulgarian: хамба́р (bg) m (hambár), жи́тница (bg) f (žítnica)
• Burmese: စည့် (my) (cany.), ကျီ (my) (kyi), စပါးကျီ (my) (ca.pa:kyi)
• Catalan: graner (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筒倉 / 筒仓 (zh) (tǒngcāng), 糧倉 / 粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng)

• Chuvash: ампар (amp̬ar), кӗлет (kĕlet)
• Czech: sýpka f
• Danish: lade (da) c
• Dutch: graanschuur (nl), spieker (nl) m
• Egyptian: (mẖr)
• Esperanto: garbejo (eo), grenejo
• Estonian: ait (et)
• Farefare: bãarɛ
• Finnish: aitta (fi)
• French: grenier (fr) m
• Galician: hórreo (gl) m, celeiro (gl) m
• Georgian: ბეღელი (ka) (beɣeli)
• German: Getreidespeicher (de) m, Kornhaus n, Kornspeicher (de) m, Speicher (de) m
• Greek: σιταποθήκη (el) m (sitapothíki), σιτοβολώνας (el) m (sitovolónas)

  Ancient: σιτοθήκη f (sitothḗkē)

• Hebrew: מַמְּגוּרָה (he) f (mamgurá), אָסָם (he) m (asám)
• Hindi: धान्यागार m (dhānyāgār), अन्नागार m (annāgār), बखारी (hi) f (bakhārī)
• Hungarian: magtár (hu), hombár (hu)
• Indonesian: lumbung (id)
• Italian: granaio (it)
• Japanese: 穀倉 (ja) (こくそう, kokusō)
• Kanakanabu: riong
• Kazakh: қамба (qamba), қойма (qoima), албар (albar)
• Khiamniungan Naga: pêi
• Khmer: តឹក (km) (tək), ជង្រុក (km) (cŭəngruk), កោដ្ឋ (km) (kaot)
• Kikuyu: ikũmbĩ class 5
• Korean: 곡창(穀倉) (ko) (gokchang)
• Kyrgyz: кампа (ky) (kampa), амбар (ky) (ambar)
• Lao: ຍຸ້ງ (nyung), ສາງ (lo) (sāng), ເຍັຽ (nyīa)
• Latin: grānārium n
• Latvian: klēts f, klēts m
• Lithuanian: klė́tis f
• Macedonian: а́мбар m (ámbar)
• Malay: jelapang
• Maori: pātaka pata
• Mari:

  Western Mari: клӓт (klät)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: амбаар (mn) (ambaar), агуулах (mn) (aguulax)

• Moore: baoore
• Norman: grain'nie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: låve (no) m

• Occitan: granièr (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: انبار (anbar), مخزن (mahzen)
• Persian: انبار (fa) (anbâr), انبار غله (fa) (anbâr-e ğalle)
• Plautdietsch: Spikja m
• Polish: spichlerz (pl) m, spichrz (pl) m, śpichlerz m
• Portuguese: celeiro (pt) m
• Quechua: pirwa
• Romanian: grânar (ro)
• Russian: зернохрани́лище (ru) n (zernoxranílišče), амба́р (ru) m (ambár), жи́тница (ru) f (žítnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жи̏тница f, а̏мба̄р m, ха̏мба̄р m

  Roman: žȉtnica (sh) f, ȁmbār (sh) m, hȁmbār (sh) m

• Slovak: sýpka (sk) f
• Slovene: kašča f
• Spanish: granero (es) m
• Swahili: ghala (sw)
• Swedish: spannmålsmagasin n, sädesmagasin (sv) n, kornbod (sv) c, lada (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamalig
• Tajik: анбор (anbor), анбори ғалла (anbor-i ġalla)
• Tarifit: tasraft f
• Tatar: амбар (ambar), келәт (tt) (kelät)
• Telugu: కోష్ఠము (te) (kōṣṭhamu)
• Thai: ยุ้ง (th) (yúng), ฉาง (th) (chǎang)
• Turkish: hububat ambarı, tahıl ambarı (tr)
• Turkmen: ammar (tk)
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎒𐎎 (ảsm)
• Ukrainian: шпіхлі́р m (špixlír), зерносхо́вище n (zernosxóvyšče), жи́тниця f (žýtnycja), комо́ра (uk) f (komóra), амба́р (uk) m (ambár), гамазе́й m (hamazéj), гамазе́я f (hamazéja), си́панець m (sýpanecʹ)
• Uzbek: ombor (uz), omborxona (uz)
• Vietnamese: kho thóc, kho ngũ cốc
• Welsh: graneri m, granar m, llofft yr ŷd f

fertile, grain-growing region

• Belarusian: жы́тніца f (žýtnica)
• Bulgarian: жи́тница (bg) f (žítnica)
• Catalan: graner (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糧倉 / 粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng)

• Danish: kornkammer n
• Dutch: graanschuur (nl) f
• Finnish: vilja-aitta (fi)
• French: grenier à blé (fr) m
• German: Kornkammer (de) f
• Greek: σιτοβολώνας (el) m (sitovolónas)
• Italian: granaio (it) m
• Khiamniungan Naga: pêi
• Macedonian: жи́тница f (žítnica)
• Polish: spichlerz (pl) m, spichrz (pl) m, śpichlerz m
• Portuguese: celeiro (pt)
• Russian: жи́тница (ru) f (žítnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жи̏тница f

  Roman: žȉtnica (sh) f

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: kornbod (sv) c
• Ukrainian: жи́тниця f (žýtnycja)

See also

• grain elevator
• silo