taran

Sense 1: from Russian тара́нь (taránʹ). Sense 2: from Russian таран (taran).

taran (plural tarans)

1. A species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube.
2. A tactic of aerial ramming.

• ratan, Arant, Ranta, ANTaR, Trana, antra, ran at, Ratna

From Old Breton taran, from Proto-Brythonic *taran, from Proto-Celtic *toranos (“thunder”).

taran ? (plural taranoù)

1. thunder

Borrowed from Polish taran (“battering ram, naval ram”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtaran]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ran

taran m inan

1. (nautical) cutwater, ram

• “taran”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “taran”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Proto-Mongolic *tarïxan, equivalent to tari (“to sow, to plant”) +‎ -an.

Compare Mongolian тариа (taria).

• IPA^(key): /tʰɑˈrɑŋ/

taran

1. grain, cereal

From tarać +‎ -an, from trzeć.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ran/

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• Rhymes: -aran
• Syllabification: ta‧ran

taran m inan

1. (historical) battering ram
2. (nautical) cutwater, ram

• → Belarusian: тара́н (tarán)
• → Czech: taran
• → Russian: тара́н (tarán)
• → Ukrainian: тара́н (tarán)

• taran in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Ukrainian таран (taran).

taran n (plural taranuri)

1. common roach (Rutilus rutilus)

• taran in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

taran

1. third-person plural present indicative of tarar

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taran

1. spike, thorn

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985), Kamus Tetun-Indonesia [Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

From Middle Welsh taran, from Proto-Brythonic *taran, from Proto-Celtic *toranos (“thunder”).

Cognate with Cornish taran, Breton taran, Irish toirneach, Scottish Gaelic tàirneanach, Manx taarnagh.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtaran/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈta(ː)ran/

taran f (plural taranau)

1. thunder, a thunderclap

   Synonyms: trwst, twrf

Welsh may employ the singular taran or plural taranau to correspond to English collective noun thunder depending on the context, e.g.

• Glywest ti’r daran ’na?

  Did you hear that thunder? (i.e. that (single) clap of thunder)

• Glywest ti’r taranau ’na?

  Did you hear that thunder? (i.e. those (several) claps of thunder)

• mellt (“lightning”)

• blodyn taranau (“red campion”)
• Lleng y Daran (“Legio Fulminata”)
• mellt a tharanau (“thunder and lightning”)
• taraniad (“thundering”)
• taranu (“to thunder”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “taran”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies