trana

See also: tråna, träna, Trana, and Træna

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse trana.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːna

Noun

trana f (genitive singular trönu, nominative plural trönur)

1. crane (bird)

Declension

Declension of trana (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trana	tranan	trönur	trönurnar
accusative	trönu	trönuna	trönur	trönurnar
dative	trönu	trönunni	trönum	trönunum
genitive	trönu	trönunnar	trana	trananna

Latin

Verb

trānā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trānō

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tranen

Noun

trana c

1. feminine definite singular of trane

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑː.nɑ/

Noun

trana f

1. definite singular of tran

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²trɑ(ː).nɑ/

Noun

trana f

1. definite singular of trane
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of trane

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• trani

Etymology

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Noun

trana f (genitive trǫnu)

1. a crane (bird)

Declension

  Declension of trana (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trana	tranan	trǫnur	trǫnurnar
accusative	trǫnu	trǫnuna	trǫnur	trǫnurnar
dative	trǫnu	trǫnunni	trǫnum	trǫnunum
genitive	trǫnu	trǫnunnar	tranna	trannanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: trana
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trana, trane, (dialectal) trunu
• Swedish: trana
• Danish: trane
  • Norwegian Bokmål: trane
  • → Faroese: trani m

References

• “trana”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse trana.

Noun

trana c

1. common crane, Grus grus
2. any bird of the crane (Gruidae) family

Declension

Declension of trana

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	trana	tranas
	definite	tranan	tranans
plural	indefinite	tranor	tranors
	definite	tranorna	tranornas

Hyponyms

• brolgatrana (“brolga crane”)
• glasögontrana (“white-naped crane”)
• grå krontrana (“grey crowned crane”)
• japansk trana (“red-crowned crane”)
• jungfrutrana (“demoiselle crane”)
• krontrana (“crowned crane”)
• munktrana (“hooded crane”)
• paradistrana (“blue crane”)
• prärietrana (“sandhill crane”)
• sarustrana (“sarus crane”)
• snötrana (“Siberian crane”)
• svart krontrana (“black crowned crane”)
• svarthalsad trana (“black-necked crane”)
• trumpetartrana (“whooping crane”)
• vårtrana (“wattled crane”)

 

Derived terms

• tranafton (“Crane Eve”)
• tranbrev (“Crane card”)
• trandag (“Crane Day”)

Anagrams

• antar