bran
/ˈbɹæn/
bran noun: the broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
Noun (1)
bran (countable and uncountable, plural brans)
Verb
bran (third-person singular simple present brans, present participle branning, simple past and past participle branned)
- To clean (metal) using a branner.
Noun (2)
bran (plural brans)
- The European carrion crow.
Proper noun capitalized: Bran
Bran (plural Brans)
- A surname.
bran meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
bran in Hindi
- outside layer of a grain
- चोकर cokar
bran in Tamil
- outside layer of a grain
- தவிடு taviṭu
bran in Bengali
- ব্রান, ব্র্যান
bran in Telugu
- outside layer of a grain
- తవుడు tavuḍu
More languagesFewer languages
- bran in Malayalam
- തവിട് taviṭŭ
- bran in Kannada
- ತವುಡು tavuḍu
- bran in Gujarati
- બ્રાન
- bran in Odia
- ବ୍ରାନ, ବ୍ରାନକୁ
- bran in Nepali
- ब्रान
- bran in Tagalog
- darak
- bran in Arabic
- نُخَالَة nuḵāla
- bran in Indonesian
- dedak
- bran in Persian
- سبوس sabus
- bran in Thai
- รำ ram
- bran in Vietnamese
- cám
Examples of bran in a sentence
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
- Dark purple riceberry bran contains a higher dietary fiber and antioxidant compounds than unpigmented rice bran.
- Her girlfriend fed her breakfast, one bran flake at a time, because Barton couldn’t swallow well.
Forms of bran
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brans |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | brans |
| present participle | branning |
| past participle | branned |
| past | branned |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Brans |
Origin of bran
From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).
From a Celtic source; compare Welsh brân and Cornish bran.
English surname, variant of Brann.
Words formed from bran
Phrases with bran
Words that rhyme with bran
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- clan
- ban
- Cheyenne
- Longshan
- Nanshan
- plan
- an
- gan
- Gushan
- han
- Hongshan
- mann
- nan
- stan
- tan
- unman
- Baoshan
- Dongshan
- flan
- Heshan
- Jinshan
- langshan
- marzipan
- panne
- Qishan
- ran
- rattan
- bantustan
- began
- chan
- Fengshan
- Fran
- Guanshan
- Hengshan
- Huangshan
- Huishan
- japan
- Lausanne
- Lianshan
- Lushan
- Marianne
- Pingshan
- scran
- sedan
- shan
- than
- trapan
- trepan
Questions about bran
- What does bran mean?
- Bran means the broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
- What is bran in Hindi?
- Bran in Hindi is चोकर (cokar). See Bran meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bran?
- Bran can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bran?
- Bran is pronounced /ˈbɹæn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bran?
- The plural of bran is brans.
Words near bran in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bran (page history and authors); Bran (page history and authors); bran (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bran (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bran (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bran (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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