anghrá

Irish

Alternative forms

• anghráchas

Etymology

From an- (“great, excessive”) +‎ grá (“love”).

Noun

anghrá m (genitive singular anghrá)

1. eroticism (quality of being erotic)

   Synonym: earótachas

Declension

Declension of anghrá (fourth declension, no plural)

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

Derived terms

• anghrách (“erotic”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of anghrá

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anghrá	n-anghrá	hanghrá	t-anghrá

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anghrá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “eroticism”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024