fraoch

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠeːx/, ^[1]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠiːx/, (older) /fˠɾˠɯːx/^[2][3]

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech,^[4] from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (compare Welsh grug, Middle Breton groegan), from an unknown non-Indo-European source (compare Czech vřes, Latvian virsis, Ancient Greek ἐρείκη (ereíkē)).

fraoch m or f (genitive singular fraoigh or fraoighe)

1. heather

   Synonym: fraoch mór

2. heath, moor

   Synonym: móinteach

• Variant genitive singular: fraoich

From Middle Irish fráech m (“rage, fury, fierceness”).^[5]

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich)

1. fierceness, fury

• fraochnimh f (“venomous anger”)
• fraochta (“fierce, furious, enraged”, adjective)

• fraochaíl f (“furiousness; fierce valour”)
• fraochtacht f (“rage, fury”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fraoch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fraoch”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fraoch”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /fɾɯːx/

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *wroikos, from a non-Indo-European source.

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich, no plural)

1. heath, heather, ling
2. bristles

• dearc-fhraoich f (“bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, cowberry”)
• deargan-fraoich m (“goldfinch; bullfinch”)

From Middle Irish fráech m (“rage, fury, fierceness”).^[2]

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich, no plural)

1. anger, fury
2. girning expression of countenance

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fraoch”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC