áras

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aras"

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish árus (“abode, dwelling, residence”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

áras m (genitive singular árais, nominative plural árais)

  1. habitation, abode
  2. house, building
  3. vessel, container, dish

Declension
Declension of áras

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative áras árais
Vocative a árais a árasa
Genitive árais áras
Dative áras árais

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-áras na hárais
Genitive an árais na n-áras
Dative leis an áras

don áras

 leis na hárais

Derived terms
  • árais tí (“household vessels”)
  • áraistí (“household vessels”)
  • áras ceoldrámaíochta (“opera house”)
  • áras fuail (“chamber-pot”)
  • áras na naomh (“the abode of the saints”)
  • árasán (“apartment, flat”)
  • busáras (“bus station”)
  • ceoláras (“concert hall”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
áras n-áras háras t-áras
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “áras”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “árus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 129, page 50

Further reading
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