Feminine

granja

  1. (feminine) a small farm
  2. (feminine) barn (a farm building used for storage or keeping animals)
  3. (Brazil, feminine) a poultry farm

Frequency

35k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɾɐ̃.ʒɐ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese grangia, from Old French grange (“barn”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica (“grain storage barn, granary; grange, small farm”), from Latin grānum (“grain”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Cognate with Galician granxa.

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