tran

Shortening of transgender, or (jocularly or seriously) a back-formation from trans mistaking it for a plural noun.

tran (plural trans)

1. (informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tran.

Shortening.

tran (plural trans)

1. Clipping of transmission.

• ar'n't, Tarn, tarn, natr-, tRNA, arn't, trna, rant, /rant

• IPA^(key): [ʈan]

tran

1. to plant

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983), Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Middle Low German trān, of Old Saxon verb trahan. Akin to German Träne (“tear”) and Tran (“whale oil”).

• IPA^(key): /trɑːn/

tran f or m (definite singular (feminine) trana or (masculine) tranen)

1. (chiefly uncountable) cod liver oil

• lyse

• “tran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *trahnu (“tear”).

trān m

1. tear (in the eye)

• Middle Dutch: trâen
  • Dutch: traan
    • Afrikaans: traan
    • Negerhollands: traan
    • → West Frisian: traan (“fish oil”)
  • Limburgish: traon

• “trān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Borrowed from German Tran.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtran/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: tran
• Homophone: Tran

tran m inan (related adjective tranowy)

1. (usually in the singular) fish oil (oil derived from the tissues of oily fish; especially: a dietary supplement made therefrom, manufactured and sold in liquid, capsule, and tablet forms)

• “tran”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “tran”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• tran in PWN's encyclopedia