granat

Etymology
Named after the pomegranate fruit. Derived from. Cf. and. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) garnet

Noun

 * 1) garnet the gem and the color

Noun

 * 1) grenade
 * 2) garnet

Etymology
From, from , , from , from.

Noun

 * : a small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) pomegranate

Etymology 2
, from.

Noun

 * 1) grenade

Etymology 3
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  garnet

Etymology 4
.

Noun

 * 1) navy blue

Noun

 * 1) garnet

Noun

 * 1) pomegranate
 * 2) garnet
 * 1) garnet

Etymology
The weapon and mineral are named after the fruit. 🇨🇬 means an apple with many seeds, from 🇨🇬. Spanish influence formed the 🇨🇬, which became granat in German, Danish, and Swedish. Used in Swedish since 1578 (fruit, the compound granatäpple already in 1541), 1568 (mineral), 1623 (weapon).

Noun

 * 1)  a grenade
 * 2)  a shell
 * 3)  a pomegranate (fruit)
 * 4)  a pomegranate (tree)
 * 5)  a garnet, a group of minerals with regular crystals
 * 1)  a pomegranate (fruit)
 * 2)  a pomegranate (tree)
 * 3)  a garnet, a group of minerals with regular crystals
 * 1)  a pomegranate (tree)
 * 2)  a garnet, a group of minerals with regular crystals
 * 1)  a garnet, a group of minerals with regular crystals

Usage notes
In technical language, for example in formal names of weapons, "handgranat" seems to be fairly consistently used for hand grenades, to distinguish them from shells and non-handheld grenades. In other contexts, "granat" is often used instead of "handgranat," when clear from context.