cuirín

See also: cúirín

Irish

cuiríní

Etymology

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”), modified to contain the suffix -ín.

Noun

cuirín m (genitive singular cuirín, nominative plural cuiríní)

1. currant (fruit of the genus Ribes)

Declension

Declension of cuirín (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cuirín cuiríní vocative a chuirín a chuiríní genitive cuirín cuiríní dative cuirín cuiríní forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cuirín na cuiríní genitive an chuirín na gcuiríní dative leis an gcuirín don chuirín leis na cuiríní

Derived terms

• arán cuiríní (“currant-bread”)
• cuirín dearg (“redcurrant”)
• cuirín dubh (“blackcurrant”)
• fíon cuiríní (“currant wine”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuirín

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuirín	chuirín	gcuirín

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) “cuirín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “currant”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025