milgrana

A hybrid of Latin mille-grana (“a thousand seeds”) + malogranatum (“seeded fruit”), from malum + granatum. Compare Galician milgranda, Portuguese milgrada, Catalan magrana, Spanish milgrana, Italian melograno.

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• /milˈɣɾano/

milgrana f (plural milgranas)

1. pomegranate

• miugrana
• meurana Gascon

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 449.

Inherited from Latin mīlle grāna (“one thousand grains”).

• IPA^(key): /milˈɡɾana/ [milˈɣ̞ɾa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: mil‧gra‧na

milgrana f (plural milgranas)

1. pomegranate (fruit)

• “milgrana”, 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