crá croí

Irish

Alternative forms
  • crádh croidhe (obsolete)

Etymology

Literally, “anguish of a heart”.

Noun

crá croí m (genitive singular crá chroí)

  1. heartbreak, heartache
    Synonyms: briseadh croí, croíbhriseadh, leá croí
  2. nuisance (minor annoyance or inconvenience; person or thing causing annoyance of inconvenience)
  3. pain, torment (suffering or anguish, especially mental)
  4. nuisance, pain, pest, vexation (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
    Synonym: pian sa tóin

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crá croí chrá croí gcrá croí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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