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Tran

Pronunciation: [tʁaːn]

“Tran” is a German word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. train oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals
  2. delirium (chiefly used in the expression im Tran)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German trān (“tear”), from Old Saxon *trahn, Proto-West Germanic *trahnu (“tear”). Doublet of Träne.

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