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cluas

See also: clúas

Irish

Alternative forms

cluais (nonstandard)

Noun

cluas f ‎(genitive singular cluaise, nominative plural cluasa)

ear
ear-shaped object; lug, handle; cleat; tab
corner, margin

Declension

Declension of cluas

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cluas	cluasa
Vocative	a chluas	a chluasa
Genitive	cluaise	cluas
Dative	cluais	cluasa

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an chluas	na cluasa
Genitive	na cluaise	na gcluas
Dative	leis an gcluais don chluais	leis na cluasa

Dual: dhá chluais

Derived terms

Terms derived from cluas

béim chluaise f, comhartha cluaise ‎(“ear-mark”)
bíonn cluasa ar na claíocha, bíonn cluasa ar an gcoill ‎(“walls have ears”)
bog na cluaise m, bun na cluaise m, liopa cluaise m, maothán cluaise m ‎(“earlobe”)
canáil na cluaise f ‎(“ear canal”)
céir chluaise f, sail chluaise f ‎(“ear-wax”)
cluaisín m ‎(“auricle; tab, lobe; lug”)
cluasach ‎(“having ears, long-eared; dog-eared”, adj)
cluas a chur ort féin ‎(“to prick one’s ears, to listen”)
cluasa duine a líonadh, lán na gcluas a thabhairt do dhuine ‎(“to fill someone's ears with idle talk”)
cluasaí m ‎(“listener, eavesdropper”)
cluasán m ‎(“listless, inattentive, person; dullard; ear-phone, head-phone”)
cluas a thabhairt do rud ‎(“to give ear, listen, to something”)
cluasbheart m ‎(“ear-protector”)
cluas bróige f ‎(“tag of shoe”)
cluas caipín f ‎(“lug of cap”)
cluas chaoin ‎(“cuckoo-pint”)
cluas cupáin f ‎(“handle of cup”)
cluas do cheol f ‎(“an ear for music”)

cluasdubh ‎(“black-eared”)
cluas eachtrach f ‎(“outer ear”)
cluaséisteacht f ‎(“(act of) eavesdropping”)
cluasfheadaíl f ‎(“soft whistling”)
cluas ghéar f, cluas easóige f ‎(“sharp ears”)
cluas inmheánach f ‎(“inner ear”)
cluas- ‎(“aural”)
cluas láir f ‎(“middle ear”)
cluasleathan ‎(“broad-eared”)
cluas le héisteacht f ‎(“attentive ear”)
cluaslia m ‎(“ear specialist”)
cluas liath ‎(“mouse-ear hawkweed”)
cluas luchóige ‎(“mouse-ear chickweed”)
cluas maide rámha ‎(“cleat of oar”)
cluasmharcáil f ‎(“earmarking”)
cluasóg f ‎(“corner (as of field); grassy patch; lug”)
cluas pota f ‎(“handle of pot”)
cluas spáide f ‎(“tread of spade”)

cluas tobáin f ‎(“handle of tub”)
cluas tuirne f ‎(“spindle-holder”)
cnámhóg cluaise f ‎(“ear ossicle”)
cor cluaise m ‎(“double sheet bend”)
dul ar an gcluas ‎(“to be overcome with sleep”) (of child)
fadchluasach ‎(“long-eared”)
fáinne cluaise m ‎(“earring”)
fithis na cluaise ‎(“auditory meatus”)
gearrchluasach ‎(“short-eared”, adj)
glao cluaise ‎(“buzzing in the ears”)
i gcluasa an bhaile mhóir ‎(“in the suburbs”)
líonadh cluas ‎(“filling of ears”) (with gossip, etc.)
pian chluaise f ‎(“ear-ache”)
poll cluaise ‎(“ear-hole”)
raon cluas ‎(“earshot”)
tinneas cluaise ‎(“earache”)
tiompán na cluaise m ‎(“eardrum”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cluas	chluas	gcluas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“clúas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“cluas” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
"cluas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Verb

cluās

second-person singular present active subjunctive of cluō

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish clúas, from Proto-Celtic *kloustā.

Noun

cluas f ‎(genitive singular cluaise, plural cluasan)

(anatomy) ear
handle, lug

Derived terms

Terms derived from cluas

cèir-chluaise ‎(“earwax”)
cluasach ‎(“having large ears; ansated, having handles”)

cluas-liath ‎(“coltsfoot”)
cluas-mhara ‎(“abalone”)

fàinne-chluaise ‎(“earring”)
fòn-cluaise ‎(“earphone”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“clúas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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cluas

cluas

Irish

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