anghrá

Irish

Alternative forms

  • anghráchas

Etymology

From an- (“great, excessive”) +‎ grá (“love”).

Noun

anghrá m (genitive singular anghrá)

  1. eroticism (quality of being erotic)
    Synonym: earótachas

Declension

Declension of anghrá (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative anghrá
vocative a anghrá
genitive anghrá
dative anghrá
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-anghrá
genitive an anghrá
dative leis an anghrá
don anghrá

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of anghrá
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
anghrá n-anghrá hanghrá t-anghrá

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) “anghrá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “eroticism”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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