cuirín

See also: cúirín

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”), modified to contain the suffix -ín.

Noun

cuirín m (genitive singular cuirín, nominative plural cuiríní)

  1. currant (fruit of the genus Ribes)

Declension

Declension of cuirín (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuirín cuiríní
vocative a chuirín a chuiríní
genitive cuirín cuiríní
dative cuirín cuiríní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cuirín na cuiríní
genitive an chuirín na gcuiríní
dative leis an gcuirín
don chuirín 		leis na cuiríní

Derived terms

  • arán cuiríní (“currant-bread”)
  • cuirín dearg (“redcurrant”)
  • cuirín dubh (“blackcurrant”)
  • fíon cuiríní (“currant wine”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuirín
radical lenition eclipsis
cuirín chuirín gcuirín

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