Tran
German, noun[tʁaːn]
Tran is spelled T-R-A-N (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 57,755th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tran is a German masculine noun meaning “train oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Öl der Robben und Fische, besonders des Wals”.
What does Tran mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrain oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals
noun
- 1
masculinedelirium (chiefly used in the expression im Tran)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. auf die andere Seite, über-, hindurch-
noun: 1. Öl der Robben und Fische, besonders des Wals 2. Zustand, in dem man nicht ganz wach ist und eher automatisch reagiert
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Tran
- Tranes genitive
- Trans genitive
- Trane plural
- Tranen dative definite plural
- trans- variant
- tra- variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Tran?
- [tʁaːn]
- [tʁan]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Tran in German?
Tran appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).