granja

Inherited from Old Catalan granja, borrowed from Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica. First attested in 1323.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɾaɲ.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɾaɲ.d͡ʒa]

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granja f (plural granges)

1. farm

• granger
• macrogranja

• “granja”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

• “granja”, 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
• “granja” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “granja” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese grangia, from Old French grange (“barn”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica (“grain storage barn, granary; grange, small farm”), from Latin grānum (“grain”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Cognate with Galician granxa.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ʒɐ
• Hyphenation: gran‧ja

granja f (plural granjas)

1. a small farm

   Synonyms: quinta, sítio

2. barn (a farm building used for storage or keeping animals)

   Synonym: celeiro

3. (Brazil) a poultry farm

Inherited from Old Spanish granja (“barn”), from Old French grange, Vulgar Latin *grānica (“grain storage barn, granary; grange, small farm”), from Latin grānum (“grain”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾanxa/ [ˈɡɾãŋ.xa]
• Rhymes: -anxa
• Syllabification: gran‧ja

granja f (plural granjas)

1. farm, grange

   Synonyms: campo, estancia, finca, hacienda, pago

• “granja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024