plúr

See also: plur, PLUR, plur., and Plur.

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman flur (compare Scottish Gaelic flùr), from Old French flor, from Latin flōs, flōris, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”). The initial p- comes from a reinterpretation of initial f- as ph-, the lenition of p-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˠlˠuːɾˠ/

Noun

plúr m (genitive singular plúir, nominative plural plúir)

1. flour
2. flower

   Synonym: bláth

   • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

     D’imthigh an buachaill amach as an tigh phobuil arís, ⁊ fuair sé é féin i ngarrdha áluinn breágh plúr, ⁊ bhain sé ceann do na plúra’ ⁊ thug leis é.

     The youth went out of the church again, and found himself in a lovely, fine garden of flowers, and he pulled one of the flowers and brought it with him.

Declension

Declension of plúr

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative plúr plúir Vocative a phlúir a phlúra Genitive plúir plúr Dative plúr plúir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an plúr na plúir Genitive an phlúir na bplúr Dative leis an bplúr don phlúr leis na plúir

Derived terms

• arán plúir (“flour bread; home-made bread”)
• brachán plúir (“white sauce”)
• ceannaí plúir (“flour-factor”)
• mála plúir (“bag of flour; flour-bag”)
• muileann plúir (“flour-mill”)
• muilleoir plúir (“flour-miller”)
• muilleoireacht plúir (“flour-milling”)
• plúirín (“anil, indigo; pretty girl”)
• plúr an locháin (“water-lobelia”)
• plúr carraige (“rock flour”)
• plúr cruithneachta (“wheaten flour”)
• plúr geal (“white flour”)
• plúr na gréine (“heliotrope”)
• plúr ruibhe (“flowers of sulphur”)
• plúrach (“floury, farinaceous; flower-like, pretty; efflorescent”)
• plúraigh (“effloresce”)
• plúrán cloigneach (“Canterbury bell”)
• plúróg (“pretty girl”)
• plúrscoth (“choicest flower, pick, choice”)
• sos plúir (“relief supply of flour”)
• spréire plúir (“flour-box, flour-dredger”)

 

See also

• min (“meal”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
plúr	phlúr	bplúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “plúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “plúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “plúr”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “plúr”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024