Bran
nounThe fibrous outer coating of cereal grains, separated during milling and eaten as a source of dietary fibre.
How to spell bran
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce bran
What does bran mean?
- nounThe fibrous outer coating of cereal grains, separated during milling and eaten as a source of dietary fibre.
Bran in a sentence
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She stirred a spoonful of bran into her morning porridge.
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Wheat bran adds fibre to the homemade muffins.
Where does bran come from?
Language of origin: French
Bran came into Middle English in the early 1300s from Old French bran or bren, which named the husk that is sifted away from milled grain, and in some uses also meant filth or refuse. The deeper origin is uncertain: many scholars trace it to a Gaulish or other Celtic source, since related forms survive in Breton and Welsh, while others suspect a Late Latin root. What stayed constant through every stage was the idea of the rough outer layer separated from the finer flour. The modern sense is purely the fibrous coat of wheat, oats, or other cereal grains, prized today as dietary fibre. Because the word is short and phonetic, its spelling has barely shifted in seven hundred years.
How the word is built
- bran (single root; the outer coating of a grain, not built from prefix or suffix)
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