cúrsa

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See also: cursa, cursá, and cursă

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cúrsa m (genitive singular cúrsa, nominative plural cúrsaí)

  1. (general, sailing, education, golf) course
  2. (sailing) reef
  3. matter, affair; circumstance
  4. occasion

Declension

Declension of cúrsa (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cúrsa cúrsaí
vocative a chúrsa a chúrsaí
genitive cúrsa cúrsaí
dative cúrsa cúrsaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cúrsa na cúrsaí
genitive an chúrsa na gcúrsaí
dative leis an gcúrsa
don chúrsa 		leis na cúrsaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúrsa
radical lenition eclipsis
cúrsa chúrsa gcúrsa

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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