grenade

See also: Grenade, grénade, Grenåde, and grenadé

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pōmum (“apple”) + grānātum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈneɪd/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

grenade (plural grenades)

A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
(obsolete) A pomegranate.
(heraldry) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
(slang) An unattractive girl.

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Translations

pomegranate — see pomegranate

small explosive device

Afrikaans: granaat (af)
Albanian: granatë (sq) f
Arabic: قُنْبُلَة f (qunbula), قُنْبُلَة يَدَوِيَّة f (qunbula yadawiyya)
Armenian: նռնակ (hy) (nṙnak)
Azerbaijani: qumbara (az), qranat (az)
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: грана́та f (hranáta)
Bengali: গ্রেনেড (bn) (greneḍ)
Bulgarian: грана́та (bg) f (granáta)
Burmese: လက်ပစ်ဗုံး (my) (lakpacbum:)
Catalan: granada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 榴彈 / 榴弹 (zh) (liúdàn), (specifically, hand grenade) 手榴彈 / 手榴弹 (zh) (shǒuliúdàn), 手雷 (zh) (shǒuléi)
Czech: granát (cs) m
Danish: granat (da) c
Dutch: granaat (nl) m
Esperanto: grenado (eo)
Estonian: granaat
Finnish: kranaatti (fi), heite (fi)
French: grenade (fr) f
Georgian: ყუმბარა (q̇umbara)
German: Granate (de) f
Greek: χειροβομβίδα (el) f (cheirovomvída)
Hebrew: רִמּוֹן / רימון (he) m (rimón)
Hindi: हथगोला m (hathgolā), ग्रेनेड (greneḍ)
Hungarian: kézigránát (hu), gránát (hu)
Icelandic: handsprengja (is) f
Ido: grenado (io)
Indonesian: granat (id)
Irish: gránáid f
Italian: granata (it) f
Japanese: 擲弾 (ja) (tekidan), 榴弾 (ja) (ryūdan), グレネード (gurenēdo), 手榴弾 (ja) (shuryūdan, teryūdan)
Kashmiri: گَرنیٹ (garnēṭ)
Kazakh: граната (granata)
Khmer: គ្រាប់បែកដៃ (krŏəp baek day), គ្រាប់បែក (km) (krŏəp baek)
Korean: 수류탄(手榴彈) (ko) (suryutan)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نارِنجۆک (narincok)

Northern Kurdish: qumbere (ku), narincok (ku)
Kyrgyz: граната (ky) (granata)
Lao: ລູກແຕກ (lūk tǣk), ລູກລະເບີດ (lūk la bœ̄t)
Latvian: granāta f
Lithuanian: granata f
Luxembourgish: Granat f
Macedonian: грана́та f (granáta), кашика́ра f (kašikára)
Malay: bom tangan
Maltese: granata f
Marathi: ग्रेनेड m (greneḍ), हातगोळा m (hātgoḷā)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гранат (mn) (granat)
Norman: grénade f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: granat m
Pashto: ګرانادا f (granādā)
Persian: نارنجک (fa) (nâranjak, nârenjak)
Polish: granat (pl) m
Portuguese: granada (pt) f
Romanian: grenadă (ro) f
Russian: грана́та (ru) f (granáta), лимо́нка (ru) f (limónka) (colloquial, certain models, especially shaped as a lemon)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: грана́та f

Latin: granáta (sh) f
Slovak: granát (sk) m
Slovene: granata f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: granata f, granata, granata f

Upper Sorbian: granata f
Spanish: granada (es) f
Swedish: granat (sv) c
Tagalog: granada
Tajik: норанҷак (noranjak)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: граната (granata)
Thai: ระเบิดมือ (th) (rá-bə̀ət-mʉʉ)
Turkish: el bombası
Ukrainian: грана́та f (hranáta)
Urdu: گرینیڈ (greneḍ)
Uyghur: گرانات (granat)
Uzbek: granata (uz)
Vietnamese: lựu đạn (vi)
Yiddish: גראַנאַט (granat)

Verb

grenade (third-person singular simple present grenades, present participle grenading, simple past and past participle grenaded)

To use grenade(s) upon.
- 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:
  Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.
- 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:
  They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.
(motor racing, slang, intransitive) Of an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out.

Translations

to use grenades

Finnish: heittää kranaatilla
French: grenader (fr)
German: no equivalent term in German, but see Granaten verwenden
Romanian: grenada

Anagrams

Redange, agender, angered, derange, en garde, enraged, grandee

French

Etymology

Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.