òran

See also: oran and Oran

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• (Lewis, Sutherland, Ross-shire) amhran

Etymology

From Middle Irish amrán (“singing, song”) (compare Irish amhrán, Manx arrane), a diminutive of Old Irish amar (“singing, song; wailing, moaning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɾan/

Noun

òran m (genitive singular òrain, plural òrain)

1. song
2. poem

Derived terms

• cian-òran
• naomh-òran
• òran nan car
• òran-buachaill
• òran-càraid
• òran-luadhaidh
• òran-nèamhaidh

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
òran	n-òran	h-òran	t-òran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “òran”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amrán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language