plúr

See also: plur, PLUR, plur., and Plur.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish plúr, from Anglo-Norman flur (compare Scottish Gaelic flùr), from Old French flor, from Latin flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”). The initial p- comes from a reinterpretation of initial f- as ph-, the lenition of p-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˠl̪ˠuːɾˠ/, /pˠlˠuːɾˠ/

Noun

plúr m (genitive singular plúir, nominative plural plúir)

1. flour
2. flower

   Synonym: bláth

   • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

     D’imthigh an buachaill amach as an tigh phobuil arís, ⁊ fuair sé é féin i ngarrdha áluinn breágh plúr, ⁊ bhain sé ceann do na plúra’ ⁊ thug leis é.

     The youth went out of the church again, and found himself in a lovely, fine garden of flowers, and he pulled one of the flowers and brought it with him.

Declension

Declension of plúr (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative plúr plúir vocative a phlúir a phlúra genitive plúir plúr dative plúr plúir forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an plúr na plúir genitive an phlúir na bplúr dative leis an bplúr don phlúr leis na plúir

Derived terms

• arán plúir (“flour bread; home-made bread”)
• brachán plúir (“white sauce”)
• ceannaí plúir (“flour-factor”)
• mála plúir (“bag of flour; flour-bag”)
• muileann plúir (“flour-mill”)
• muilleoir plúir (“flour-miller”)
• muilleoireacht plúir (“flour-milling”)
• plúirín (“anil, indigo; pretty girl”)
• plúr an locháin (“water-lobelia”)
• plúr carraige (“rock flour”)
• plúr cruithneachta (“wheaten flour”)
• plúr geal (“white flour”)
• plúr na gréine (“heliotrope”)
• plúr ruibhe (“flowers of sulphur”)
• plúrach (“floury, farinaceous; flower-like, pretty; efflorescent”)
• plúraigh (“effloresce”)
• plúrán cloigneach (“Canterbury bell”)
• plúróg (“pretty girl”)
• plúrscoth (“choicest flower, pick, choice”)
• sos plúir (“relief supply of flour”)
• spréire plúir (“flour-box, flour-dredger”)

See also

• min (“meal”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of plúr

radical	lenition	eclipsis
plúr	phlúr	bplúr

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) “plúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “plúr”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “plúr”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025