"cranny" meaning in All languages combined

See cranny on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹæni/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav Forms: crannies [plural]
Rhymes: -æni Etymology: From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin. Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|crany}} Middle English crany, {{der|en|fro|cran}} Old French cran, {{der|en|ML.|crenō||split|pos=verb}} Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), {{der|en|VL.||*crinō|split, break|pos=verb}} Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), {{cog|la|crēna}} Latin crēna, {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{der|en|cel|-}} Celtic, {{cog|goh|chrinna||notch, groove, crevice}} Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), {{cog|gsw|Krinne||small crack, channel, groove}} Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), {{cog|nds|karn||notch, groove, crevice, cranny}} Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), {{cog|sga|ara-chrinin||to perish, decay}} Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} cranny (plural crannies)
  1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. Translations (small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink): пукнатина (puknatina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), пролука (proluka) (Bulgarian), процеп (procep) [masculine] (Bulgarian), spleet (Dutch), scheur (Dutch), halkeama (Finnish), rako (Finnish), Spalt [masculine] (German), Versteck [neuter] (German), piere (Maori), mātata (Maori), fisură [feminine] (Romanian), щель (ščelʹ) [feminine] (Russian), трещина (treščina) [feminine] (Russian), recoveco [masculine] (Spanish), springa [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-cranny-en-noun-P6dYXha2 Disambiguation of 'small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink': 99 1
  2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
    Sense id: en-cranny-en-noun-V6OABRPS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹæni/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav Forms: crannies [plural]
Rhymes: -æni Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani किरानी (kirānī) / کِرانِی (kirānī). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|inc-hnd|-}} Borrowed from Hindustani Head templates: {{en-noun}} cranny (plural crannies)
  1. (India, obsolete) A clerk writing English. Tags: India, obsolete
    Sense id: en-cranny-en-noun-aM~JjRWb Categories (other): Indian English
  2. (India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited. Tags: India, obsolete
    Sense id: en-cranny-en-noun-0xdpHXgM Categories (other): Indian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 1 19 52 14 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 1 6 59 17 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 1 4 64 18 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹæni/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav Forms: crannies [present, singular, third-person], crannying [participle, present], crannied [participle, past], crannied [past]
Rhymes: -æni Etymology: From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin. Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|crany}} Middle English crany, {{der|en|fro|cran}} Old French cran, {{der|en|ML.|crenō||split|pos=verb}} Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), {{der|en|VL.||*crinō|split, break|pos=verb}} Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), {{cog|la|crēna}} Latin crēna, {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{der|en|cel|-}} Celtic, {{cog|goh|chrinna||notch, groove, crevice}} Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), {{cog|gsw|Krinne||small crack, channel, groove}} Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), {{cog|nds|karn||notch, groove, crevice, cranny}} Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), {{cog|sga|ara-chrinin||to perish, decay}} Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)
  1. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-cranny-en-verb-vV7nJecO Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 10 7 50 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 29 7 40 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 12 9 50 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 24 7 43 26 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 8 50 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 24 7 43 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 24 7 43 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 11 7 51 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 9 6 53 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 24 6 44 26
  2. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-cranny-en-verb-hM9FaFY1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "crany"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English crany",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cran"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cran",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "crenō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "split",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*crinō",
        "5": "split, break",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "crēna"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin crēna",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cel",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Celtic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "chrinna",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gsw",
        "2": "Krinne",
        "3": "",
        "4": "small crack, channel, groove"
      },
      "expansion": "Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "karn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice, cranny"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ara-chrinin",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to perish, decay"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.\nDespite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crannies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranny (plural crannies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "any nook or cranny"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "every nook and cranny"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nook and cranny"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nook or cranny"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 208, line 237:",
          "text": "Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter XXII. Of the Great Joy that John Express’d when He Got Possession of Ecclesdown.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 170:",
          "text": "[H]e peep'd into every Cranny; ſometimes he admir'd the Beauty of the Architecture, and the vaſt Solidity of the Maſon's VVork; at other Times he commended the Symmetry and Proportion of the Rooms.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter II, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:",
          "text": "What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance."
      ],
      "id": "en-cranny-en-noun-P6dYXha2",
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "puknatina",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "пукнатина"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "proluka",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "пролука"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "procep",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "процеп"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "spleet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "scheur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "halkeama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "rako"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Spalt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Versteck"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "piere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "word": "mātata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fisură"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ščelʹ",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "щель"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "treščina",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "трещина"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "recoveco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "springa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-cranny-en-noun-V6OABRPS"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranny"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "crany"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English crany",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cran"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cran",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "crenō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "split",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*crinō",
        "5": "split, break",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "crēna"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin crēna",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cel",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Celtic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "chrinna",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gsw",
        "2": "Krinne",
        "3": "",
        "4": "small crack, channel, groove"
      },
      "expansion": "Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "karn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice, cranny"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ara-chrinin",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to perish, decay"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.\nDespite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crannies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crannying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crannied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crannied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "10 7 50 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 7 40 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 9 50 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 7 43 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 8 50 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 7 43 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 7 43 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 7 51 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 6 53 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 6 44 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333",
          "text": "The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break into, or become full of, crannies."
      ],
      "id": "en-cranny-en-verb-vV7nJecO",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, (please specify the stanza number):",
          "text": "All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To haunt or enter by crannies."
      ],
      "id": "en-cranny-en-verb-hM9FaFY1",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranny"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inc-hnd",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindustani",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindustani किरानी (kirānī) / کِرانِی (kirānī).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crannies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranny (plural crannies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A clerk writing English."
      ],
      "id": "en-cranny-en-noun-aM~JjRWb",
      "links": [
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ],
        [
          "English",
          "English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A clerk writing English."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 1 19 52 14 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 1 6 59 17 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 1 4 64 18 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited."
      ],
      "id": "en-cranny-en-noun-0xdpHXgM",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranny"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Hindustani languages",
    "English terms derived from Celtic languages",
    "English terms derived from Germanic languages",
    "English terms derived from Hindustani languages",
    "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Vulgar Latin",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/æni",
    "Rhymes:English/æni/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "crany"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English crany",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cran"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cran",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "crenō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "split",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*crinō",
        "5": "split, break",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "crēna"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin crēna",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cel",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Celtic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "chrinna",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gsw",
        "2": "Krinne",
        "3": "",
        "4": "small crack, channel, groove"
      },
      "expansion": "Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "karn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice, cranny"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ara-chrinin",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to perish, decay"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.\nDespite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crannies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranny (plural crannies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "any nook or cranny"
    },
    {
      "word": "every nook and cranny"
    },
    {
      "word": "nook and cranny"
    },
    {
      "word": "nook or cranny"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 208, line 237:",
          "text": "Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter XXII. Of the Great Joy that John Express’d when He Got Possession of Ecclesdown.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 170:",
          "text": "[H]e peep'd into every Cranny; ſometimes he admir'd the Beauty of the Architecture, and the vaſt Solidity of the Maſon's VVork; at other Times he commended the Symmetry and Proportion of the Rooms.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter II, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:",
          "text": "What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æni"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "puknatina",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пукнатина"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "proluka",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "пролука"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "procep",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "процеп"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "spleet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "scheur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "halkeama"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "rako"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Versteck"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "piere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "word": "mātata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fisură"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ščelʹ",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "щель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "treščina",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "трещина"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "recoveco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "springa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranny"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Hindustani languages",
    "English terms derived from Celtic languages",
    "English terms derived from Germanic languages",
    "English terms derived from Hindustani languages",
    "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Vulgar Latin",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/æni",
    "Rhymes:English/æni/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "crany"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English crany",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cran"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cran",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "crenō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "split",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*crinō",
        "5": "split, break",
        "pos": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "crēna"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin crēna",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cel",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Celtic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "chrinna",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gsw",
        "2": "Krinne",
        "3": "",
        "4": "small crack, channel, groove"
      },
      "expansion": "Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "karn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "notch, groove, crevice, cranny"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ara-chrinin",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to perish, decay"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.\nDespite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crannies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crannying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crannied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crannied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333",
          "text": "The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break into, or become full of, crannies."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, (please specify the stanza number):",
          "text": "All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To haunt or enter by crannies."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranny"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Hindustani languages",
    "English terms derived from Hindustani languages",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/æni",
    "Rhymes:English/æni/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inc-hnd",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindustani",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindustani किरानी (kirānī) / کِرانِی (kirānī).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crannies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranny (plural crannies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "Indian English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A clerk writing English."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ],
        [
          "English",
          "English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A clerk writing English."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "Indian English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cranny.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cranny.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranny"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cranny meaning in All languages combined (14.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.