uachtarán

See also: Uachtarán and úachtarán

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish úachtarán (“leader, chief”). By surface analysis, uachtar +‎ -án (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uəxt̪ˠəɾˠɑːnˠ/

Noun

uachtarán m (genitive singular uachtaráin, nominative plural uachtaráin)

1. president; head, superior
2. headmaster (school, academic)

   Synonym: ardmháistir

3. (archaic) landowner

Usage notes

When used as a title, uachtarán is capitalized: see Uachtarán.

Declension

Declension of uachtarán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uachtarán uachtaráin vocative a uachtaráin a uachtarána genitive uachtaráin uachtarán dative uachtarán uachtaráin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uachtarán na huachtaráin genitive an uachtaráin na n-uachtarán dative leis an uachtarán don uachtarán leis na huachtaráin

Derived terms

• uachtaránacht f (“presidency; authority, power”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uachtarán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uachtarán	n-uachtarán	huachtarán	t-uachtarán

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) “uachtarán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úachtarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “uachtarán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “uachtarán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025