Cordastáin

Irish

Etymology

From Northern Kurdish Kurdistan.

Proper noun

An Chordastáin f (genitive na Cordastáine)

  1. Kurdistan (a cultural region in Western Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria)
  2. (by extension) Kurdistan (an autonomous region in northern and northeastern Iraq, lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region)
  3. (by extension) Kurdistan (a province in northwestern Iran, lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region)

Declension

Declension of Cordastáin (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Cordastáin
vocative a Chordastáin
genitive Cordastáine
dative Cordastáin
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an Chordastáin
genitive na Cordastáine
dative leis an gCordastáin
don Chordastáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of Cordastáin
radical lenition eclipsis
Cordastáin Chordastáin gCordastáin

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

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