treabhsar

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trousers, in turn from Irish triús (“close-fitting shorts”), of which it is a doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲɾʲəusˠəɾˠ/

Noun

treabhsar m (genitive singular treabhsair, nominative plural treabhsair)

1. (pair of) trousers

Declension

Declension of treabhsar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative treabhsar treabhsair vocative a threabhsair a threabhsara genitive treabhsair treabhsar dative treabhsar treabhsair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an treabhsar na treabhsair genitive an treabhsair na dtreabhsar dative leis an treabhsar don treabhsar leis na treabhsair

Synonyms

• bríste
• triús

Mutation

Mutated forms of treabhsar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
treabhsar	threabhsar	dtreabhsar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “treabhsar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “treabhsar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “treaḃsar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 751
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “triubus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “treabhsar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “treabhsar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm