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Irish
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish arbu.
Pronunciation
Particle
arú
- used with words denoting a unit of time in the past or future to indicate one unit further away from the present; see derived terms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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Interjection
arú!
- ah!
- no
- so! indeed!
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 37
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aṫruġaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 44
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “arbu (‘day before yesterday etc.’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “arú”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “arú”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024