cúrsa

See also: cursa, cursá, and cursă

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɾˠsˠə/

Noun

cúrsa m (genitive singular cúrsa, nominative plural cúrsaí)

1. (general, sailing, education, golf) course
2. (sailing) reef
3. matter, affair; circumstance
4. occasion

Declension

Declension of cúrsa (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cúrsa cúrsaí vocative a chúrsa a chúrsaí genitive cúrsa cúrsaí dative cúrsa cúrsaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cúrsa na cúrsaí genitive an chúrsa na gcúrsaí dative leis an gcúrsa don chúrsa leis na cúrsaí

Derived terms

• (golf): feighlí cúrsa

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúrsa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cúrsa	chúrsa	gcúrsa

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) “cúrsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN