grana
Spanish, noun
grana is spelled G-R-A-N-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 45,181st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grana is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “seeding (event of a plant's production of seeds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of granar. With an accent, graná is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of granar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de granar”.
What does grana mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineseeding (event of a plant's production of seeds)
noun
- 1
femininecochineal
- 2
femininekermes (insect genus)
- 3
feminineburgundy, dark red (color/colour)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of granar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de granar. 2. Semilla menuda de varios vegetales. 3. Tiempo en que se cuaja el grano de trigo, lino, cáñamo, etc.
noun: 1. Cochinilla. 2. Quermes (insecto). 3. Excrecencia o agallita que el quermes forma en la coscoja, y que, exprimida, produce color rojo. 4. Color rojo obtenido de este modo(3).
adjective: 1. Se dice del color rojo semejante al de la grana(3). 2. Que es de color rojo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grana
- granas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to grana
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grana in Spanish?
grana appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).