carrchlós

Irish

Etymology

From carr (“car”) +‎ clós (“enclosure, yard”).

Noun

carrchlós m (genitive singular carrchlóis, nominative plural carrchlóis)

1. parking lot, car park

Declension

Declension of carrchlós (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative carrchlós carrchlóis vocative a charrchlóis a charrchlósa genitive carrchlóis carrchlós dative carrchlós carrchlóis forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an carrchlós na carrchlóis genitive an charrchlóis na gcarrchlós dative leis an gcarrchlós don charrchlós leis na carrchlóis

Derived terms

• carrchlós ilstórach (“parking garage”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of carrchlós

radical	lenition	eclipsis
carrchlós	charrchlós	gcarrchlós

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) “carrchlós”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “car+park”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “parking+lot”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024