grá

Borrowed from Irish grá.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

grá (uncountable)

1. (Ireland) Love, affection.
   • 2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Graham Sweeney, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11:

     He admits that, as a project, “it's a bit niche, but I think anybody who's been here develops a massive grá for Achill. […] ”

• gar, Arg., RAG, Rag, Gar, RGA, rag, GAR, ARG, arg, agr-, arg.

See grár.

• IPA^(key): /krauː/

grá

1. feminine nominative singular positive degree of grár

• grádh (superseded)

From Old Irish grád, from Proto-Celtic *gʷrātus.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠɑː/^[1][2][3][4], /ɡɾˠaː/^[5][6][7]
• (Ulster, genitive) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠaːj/^[7] (corresponding to the form gráidh)
• (Ulster, verbal noun) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠaːw/^[8] (as if spelled grádhadh)
• Homophones: gnáth (Ulster and parts of Connacht), gráigh (one Connacht pronunciation)

grá m (genitive singular as substantive grá, genitive as verbal noun gráite)

1. love

   Tá grá agam ort. ― I love you.

2. beloved person

   Tá mo ghrá caillte. ― My beloved is gone.

3. (endearing) love

   Cur glaoch orm, a ghrá. ― Call me, my love.

4. charity, beneficence
5. verbal noun of gráigh

As substantive

As verbal noun

• → English: grá
• →⇒ Fingallian: agra
• → Scots: gra

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “grá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 grád?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

grá

1. inflection of grár:
   1. positive degree strong feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. positive degree strong neuter dative singular
   3. positive degree strong masculine accusative plural
   4. positive degree strong neuter nominative/accusative plural
   5. positive degree weak masculine oblique singular
   6. positive degree weak feminine/neuter singular
   7. positive degree weak nominative/accusative/genitive plural