fuarú

Irish

Noun

fuarú m (genitive singular fuaraithe)

1. verbal noun of fuaraigh
2. cooling
3. chilling, creepy, terrifying, able to cause fright.
4. quenching

Declension

Declension of fuarú (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative fuarú vocative a fhuarú genitive fuaraithe dative fuarú forms with the definite article case singular nominative an fuarú genitive an fhuaraithe dative leis an bhfuarú don fhuarú

Derived terms

• gléas fuaraithe m (“cooler”)
• píobán fuaraithe m (“cooling duct”)
• túr fuaraithe m (“cooling tower”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuarú

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuarú	fhuarú	bhfuarú

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) “fuarú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuarú”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fuarú”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024