fras

See also: Fras, fräs, frås, and Fraś

Cornish

Adjective

fras

1. Mixed mutation of bras.

Mutation

  Mutation of fras  

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
bras	vras	unchanged	pras	fras	vras

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fras (“shower”).

Noun

fras f (genitive singular fraise, nominative plural frasa)

1. shower
2. onset, attack
3. (music) run

Derived terms

• fras sneachta (“snowshower”)
• fraschith (“heavy shower”)
• frasnéal (“raincloud”)

Related terms

• frasach (“showery”)
• frasaigh (“to shower”)

Adjective

fras (genitive singular masculine frais, genitive singular feminine fraise, plural frasa, comparative fraise)

1. copious, plentiful, abundant

Declension

Declension of fras

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	fras	fhras	frasa; fhrasa²
Vocative	fhrais		frasa
Genitive		fraise	frasa	fras
Dative	fras; fhras¹	fhras; fhrais (archaic)	frasa; fhrasa²
Comparative	níos fraise
Superlative	is fraise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Verb

fras

1. Alternative form of frasaigh (“to shower”)

Further reading

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish frass, from Old Irish fras (“shower”), from Proto-Celtic *wrastâ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérseh₂ (“humidity”), see also Sanskrit वर्षा (varṣā, “rain”), Albanian versë (“dew”), Armenian գայր (gayr, “dirt, mud”), Old Persian باران (bārān, “rain”).

Noun

fras f (genitive singular froise, plural frasan)

1. shower
2. seed

Derived terms

• bogha-frois
• còta-froise
• fras cluarain
• frasach

Verb

fras (past fhras, future frasaidh, verbal noun frasadh, past participle fraste)

1. rain, scatter, shower, drip

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wrasto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 429

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis, from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis).

Noun

fras c

1. a phrase
2. (grammar) a phrase
3. rustling (like from something dry and brittle, for example dry leaves)
4. crunch (of something airy and crispy)

   Havrefras

   Oat crunch [brand of breakfast cereal]

Declension

Declension of fras

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fras	fras
	definite	frasen	frasens
plural	indefinite	fraser	frasers
	definite	fraserna	frasernas

Related terms

• frasa
• frasig

See also

• mening
• uttryck

References

• fras in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fras in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fras in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• fars