dran

dran

1. (anatomy) neck

Short form of daran

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• Rhymes: -an

dran

1. Alternative form of daran
2. (in the phrase dran sein) to be in a particular condition

   Sie ist wirklich schlecht dran.

   She is really badly off.

3. (in the phrase an (etwas) dran sein) to be (possibly) true

   „Was hältst Du von den Gerüchten?“ — „Ich denke, an denen ist etwas dran.“

   "What do you make of the rumours?" — "I think there might be something to them."

4. (slang, in the phrase dran sein) to get it, to suffer consequences, punishment or retaliation

   Jetzt bist du dran!

   Now you're gonna get it!

5. (in the phrase dran sein) to be someone's turn (in a game, to do household chores, etc.)

   Du bist dran!

   It's your turn!

• “dran” in Duden online
• “dran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

dran

1. fresh water

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• ABVD as d̃an
• ASJP as de*an

• IPA^(key): /dʀan/, [dʀɑn]

dran

1. Alternative form of doran (“therein”)

dran

1. fresh water

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

From Proto-Germanic *drēhaną.

drān

1. to emit an odour

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• “dran”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• drǣn

From Proto-West Germanic *drānu (“drone”).

Cognate with Old Saxon drān (Low German drōne), Old High German treno (dialectal German Dräne).

• IPA^(key): /drɑːn/

drān f

1. male bee, drone

• Middle English: drane, drone
  • English: drone
  • Scots: dron