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fearán

fearán

Irish

Alternative forms

féarán

Noun

fearán m ‎(genitive singular fearáin, nominative plural fearáin)

dove

Declension

Declension of fearán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fearán	fearáin
Vocative	a fhearáin	a fhearána
Genitive	fearáin	fearán
Dative	fearán	fearáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an fearán	na fearáin
Genitive	an fhearáin	na bhfearán
Dative	leis an bhfearán don fhearán	leis na fearáin

Synonyms

colm
colúr

Derived terms

Terms derived from fearán

fearán baicdhubh ‎(“collared turtle-dove”)

fearán binne ‎(“rock-dove”)

fearán breac, fearán eidhinn ‎(“turtle-dove”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fearán	fhearán	bhfearán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"fearán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“ferán” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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