árachas

See also: àrachas

Irish

Etymology

From árach (“bond, security”) +‎ -as.

Noun

árachas m (genitive singular árachais)

1. insurance

   Chuir siad árachas ar an gcarr.

   They insured the car; they took out insurance on the car.

   (literally, “They put insurance on the car.”)

Declension

Declension of árachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative árachas vocative a árachais genitive árachais dative árachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-árachas genitive an árachais dative leis an árachas don árachas

Derived terms

• aerárachas
• árachas dífhostaíochta
• árachas dóiteáin
• árachas muirí
• árachas saoil
• árachas sláinte
• árachas tionóisce
• faoi árachas
• nóta árachais
• polasaí árachais
• sealbhóir árachais
• táille árachais

Mutation

Mutated forms of árachas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
árachas	n-árachas	hárachas	t-árachas

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “árachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN