cruan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crúan (red enamel).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾˠuənˠ/

Noun

cruan m (genitive singular cruain)

  1. enamel

Declension

Declension of cruan (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cruan
vocative a chruain
genitive cruain
dative cruan
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cruan
genitive an chruain
dative leis an gcruan
don chruan

Derived terms

  • cruanadóireacht f (enamel-work)
  • cruanearra m ((article of) enamelware)

Verb

cruan (present analytic cruanann, future analytic cruanfaidh, verbal noun cruanadh, past participle cruanta)

  1. (transitive) enamel

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • cruanaí m (enameller)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruan
radical lenition eclipsis
cruan chruan gcruan

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crúan (red enamel).

Adjective

cruan

  1. blood-red

Noun

cruan m

  1. enamel

Synonyms

  • geiltrigeadh

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cruan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language