Irish

Alternative forms

• foraighis (superseded)

Noun

foraois f ‎(genitive singular foraoise, nominative plural foraoisí)

1. forest
   • 2007, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Breandán Ó Doibhlin, An Prionsa Beag, Dublin: Read Ireland, ISBN 9780955625008, p. 1:

     Nuair a bhí mé sé bliana d’aois, chonaic mé, uair amháin, pictiúr iontach i leabhar i dtaobh na foraoise darbh ainm “Scéalta fíora.”

     Once when I was six years old, I saw a wonderful picture in a book about the forest called “True stories.”

Declension

Derived terms

• foraoiseacht
• foraoiseoir
• foraoiseolaíocht
• foraoisigh

Mutation

References

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