fraochán

Irish

Etymology

From fraoch (“heather”) +‎ -án.

Noun

fraochán m (genitive singular fraocháin, nominative plural fraocháin)

1. blueberry, bilberry, whortleberry

Synonyms

• fraochán gorm

Descendants

• → English: fraughan, fraochan, fraghan, frawn

Noun

fraochán m (genitive singular fraocháin, nominative plural fraocháin)

1. ring-ouzel

Declension

Declension of fraochán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fraochán fraocháin vocative a fhraocháin a fhraochána genitive fraocháin fraochán dative fraochán fraocháin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fraochán na fraocháin genitive an fhraocháin na bhfraochán dative leis an bhfraochán don fhraochán leis na fraocháin

Mutation

Mutated forms of fraochán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fraochán	fhraochán	bhfraochán

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) “fraochán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “blueberry”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024