Sáír

See also: sair, saír, sáir, Şair, şair, and sāir

Irish

Etymology

From English Zaire.

Proper noun

An tSáír f (genitive na Sáíre)

  1. (historical) Zaire (former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997)
    Synonym: Poblacht na Sáíre

Declension

Declension of Sáír (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Sáír
vocative a Sháír
genitive Sáíre
dative Sáír
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tSáír
genitive na Sáíre
dative leis an tSáír
don tSáír

Mutation

Mutated forms of Sáír
radical lenition eclipsis
Sáír Sháír
after an, tSáír 		not applicable

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

Further reading

  • “tSáír”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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