grá

Borrowed from Irish grá.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑː/

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. […] ”

See grár.

• IPA^(key): /krauː/

grá

1. feminine nominative singular positive degree of grár

• grádh (superseded)

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

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠɑː/
  • Homophones: gnáth, gráigh (one Connacht pronunciation)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠaː/
• (Ulster, genitive) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠaːj/[1] (corresponding to the form gráidh)
• (Ulster, verbal noun) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠaːw/[2] (as if spelled grádhadh)

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. term of endearment

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

4. charity, beneficence
5. verbal noun of gráigh

As substantive

As verbal noun

• → Scots: gra

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “grá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 grád?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 34

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