cúrsa

See also: cursa, cursá, and cursă

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɾˠsˠə/

Noun

cúrsa m (genitive singular cúrsa, nominative plural cúrsaí)

1. (general, sailing, education, golf) course
2. (sailing) reef
3. matter, affair; circumstance
4. occasion

Declension

Declension of cúrsa

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cúrsa cúrsaí Vocative a chúrsa a chúrsaí Genitive cúrsa cúrsaí Dative cúrsa cúrsaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cúrsa na cúrsaí Genitive an chúrsa na gcúrsaí Dative leis an gcúrsa don chúrsa leis na cúrsaí

Derived terms

• (golf): feighlí cúrsa

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cúrsa	chúrsa	gcúrsa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúrsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN