"pran" meaning in Spanish

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɾan/, [ˈpɾãn] Forms: pranes [plural]
Rhymes: -an Etymology: Allegedly an acronym for preso rematado asesino nato ("prisoner finished, killer born"). Head templates: {{es-noun|m}} pran m (plural pranes)
  1. (Venezuela) drug lord; baron; big cheese of criminal organisation Tags: Venezuela, masculine

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Allegedly an acronym for preso rematado asesino nato (\"prisoner finished, killer born\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pranes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "pran m (plural pranes)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pran"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "pran"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Venezuelan Spanish",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
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        {
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            [
              104,
              108
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              122,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In that context, of course, it is not the law that governs individual behavior but force. Therefore the Pran (Prisoner Finished, Killer Born) imposes himself with threats and violence upon that landscape of heaped-up and abandoned men.",
          "ref": "2012, Roberto Briceño-León et al., Violencia e institucionalidad: Informe del Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia 2012, page 159:",
          "text": "En ese contexto por supuesto que no es la ley lo que rige el comportamiento de los individuos, sino la fuerza. Por eso el Pran (Preso Rematado Asesino Nato) se impone con la amenaza y la violencia en ese territorio de hombres amontonados y abandonados.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        ],
        [
          "baron",
          "baron"
        ],
        [
          "big cheese",
          "big cheese"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Venezuela) drug lord; baron; big cheese of criminal organisation"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Venezuela",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɾan/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɾãn]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-an"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pran"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Allegedly an acronym for preso rematado asesino nato (\"prisoner finished, killer born\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pranes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "pran m (plural pranes)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pran"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "pran"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Spanish/an",
        "Rhymes:Spanish/an/1 syllable",
        "Spanish 1-syllable words",
        "Spanish countable nouns",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish masculine nouns",
        "Spanish nouns",
        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Venezuelan Spanish"
      ],
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            [
              104,
              108
            ]
          ],
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            [
              122,
              126
            ]
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          "english": "In that context, of course, it is not the law that governs individual behavior but force. Therefore the Pran (Prisoner Finished, Killer Born) imposes himself with threats and violence upon that landscape of heaped-up and abandoned men.",
          "ref": "2012, Roberto Briceño-León et al., Violencia e institucionalidad: Informe del Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia 2012, page 159:",
          "text": "En ese contexto por supuesto que no es la ley lo que rige el comportamiento de los individuos, sino la fuerza. Por eso el Pran (Preso Rematado Asesino Nato) se impone con la amenaza y la violencia en ese territorio de hombres amontonados y abandonados.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "big cheese",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(Venezuela) drug lord; baron; big cheese of criminal organisation"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Venezuela",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɾan/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɾãn]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-an"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pran"
}

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