tran
/tɹæn/
tran noun: a trans person. Also the clipping of transmission.
Noun
tran (plural trans)
- A trans person.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tran.
Proper noun capitalized: Tran
Tran (plural Trans)
- A surname from Vietnamese.
- Police say Huu Can Tran, 72, opened fire at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, on Saturday night, before fatally shooting himself after a manhunt across the region on Sunday. […] It is unclear how frequently Tran visited the dance hall, if at all, in recent years.2023 January 23, Jeff Winter, Casey Tolan, Scott Glover, “Gunman had been a regular patron at dance hall he attacked, according to people who knew him”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Mar...
Also used as
tran is also the clipping of transmission.
tran meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
tran in Hindi
- ट्रान, ट्रां, त्रान
tran in Marathi
- ट्रान
tran in Urdu
- ٹران
tran in Bengali
- ট্রান
More languagesFewer languages
- tran in Telugu
- ట్రాన్
- tran in Malayalam
- ട്രാൻ
- tran in Kannada
- ಟ್ರಾನ್
- tran in Punjabi
- ਟਰਾਨ
- tran in Gujarati
- ટ્રાન, ટ્રાન્
- tran in Nepali
- ट्रान्
Forms of tran
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trans |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Trans |
Origin of tran
Shortening of transgender, or (jocularly or seriously) a back-formation from trans mistaking it for a plural noun.
Shortening.
Anglicization of Vietnamese Trần. Doublet of Tan, Chen, and Chan.
Questions about tran
- What does tran mean?
- Tran means a trans person.
- What is tran in Hindi?
- Tran in Hindi is ट्रान, ट्रां, त्रान. See Tran meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tran?
- Tran can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tran?
- Tran is pronounced /tɹæn/.
- What is the plural of tran?
- The plural of tran is trans.
Words near tran in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tran (page history and authors); Tran (page history and authors); tran (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tran (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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