fuarú

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

fuarú m (genitive singular fuaraithe)

  1. verbal noun of fuaraigh
  2. cooling
  3. chilling, creepy, terrifying, able to cause fright.
  4. quenching

Declension

Declension of fuarú (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative fuarú
vocative a fhuarú
genitive fuaraithe
dative fuarú
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fuarú
genitive an fhuaraithe
dative leis an bhfuarú
don fhuarú

Derived terms

  • píobán fuaraithe m (“cooling duct”)
  • túr fuaraithe m (“cooling tower”)
  • gléas fuaraithe m (“cooler”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuarú
radical lenition eclipsis
fuarú fhuarú bhfuarú

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 67, page 29

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “fuaruġaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 495; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fuarú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “fuarú”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
  • “fuarú”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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