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colún

colún

Irish

Noun

colún m ‎(genitive singular colúin, nominative plural colúin)

(architecture) pillar, column
column (of text)
(figuratively) pillar, support; (plural) warriors

Declension

Declension of colún

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	colún	colúin
Vocative	a cholúin	a cholúna
Genitive	colúin	colún
Dative	colún	colúin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an colún	na colúin
Genitive	an cholúin	na gcolún
Dative	leis an gcolún don cholún	leis na colúin

Derived terms

Terms derived from colún

colúnaí ‎(“columnist”)
colún ainmneacha ‎(“column of names”)
colún bealaigh ‎(“column of route”)
colún ceathrar ‎(“column of fours”)
colún codánacháin ‎(“fractionating column”)
colún cuisleannach ‎(“fluted column”)
colún feithiclí ‎(“column of vehicles”)

colún figiúirí ‎(“column of figures”)
colún leabhair ‎(“column of a book”)
colún liteartha ‎(“literary column”)
colún long ‎(“column of ships”)
colún na marbh ‎(“obituary column”)
colún nuachta ‎(“news column”)

colún páipéir ‎(“column of a paper”)
colúnra ‎(“columns; colonnade”)
colún reatha ‎(“flying column”)
colún saighdiúirí ‎(“column of soldiers”)
colún spóirt ‎(“sports column”)
colún veirteabrach ‎(“vertebral column”)

Related terms

colúnáid ‎(“colonnade”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
colún	cholún	gcolún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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