treabhsar

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trousers, in turn from Irish triús (“close-fitting shorts”), of which it is a doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲɾʲəusˠəɾˠ/

Noun

treabhsar m (genitive singular treabhsair, nominative plural treabhsair)

1. (pair of) trousers

Declension

Declension of treabhsar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative treabhsar treabhsair Vocative a threabhsair a threabhsara Genitive treabhsair treabhsar Dative treabhsar treabhsair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an treabhsar na treabhsair Genitive an treabhsair na dtreabhsar Dative leis an treabhsar don treabhsar leis na treabhsair

Synonyms

• bríste
• triús

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
treabhsar	threabhsar	dtreabhsar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “treabhsar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “treabhsar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “treaḃsar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 751
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “triubus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “treabhsar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “treabhsar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm