beacán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

beacán m (genitive singular beacáin, nominative plural beacáin)

1. mushroom

   Synonym: muisiriún

Declension

Declension of beacán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative beacán beacáin Vocative a bheacáin a bheacána Genitive beacáin beacán Dative beacán beacáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an beacán na beacáin Genitive an bheacáin na mbeacán Dative leis an mbeacán don bheacán leis na beacáin

Derived terms

• beacán capaill m (“horse mushroom”)
• beacán cnaipe m (“button mushroom”)
• beacán draíochta m (“magic mushroom”)
• beacán síotaicé m (“shiitake mushroom”)
• curadóir beacán m (“mushroom-grower”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
beacán	bheacán	mbeacán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beacán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “beacán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “beacán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024