cluasán

Irish

Etymology

From cluas (“ear”) +‎ -án (diminutive suffix).

Noun

cluasán m (genitive singular cluasáin, nominative plural cluasáin)

1. earphone, headphone
2. (nautical) clinker piece

   Synonym: asclán

Declension

Declension of cluasán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cluasán cluasáin vocative a chluasáin a chluasána genitive cluasáin cluasán dative cluasán cluasáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cluasán na cluasáin genitive an chluasáin na gcluasán dative leis an gcluasán don chluasán leis na cluasáin

Derived terms

• cluasán fia (“melancholy thistle”)
• cluasánach (“dullard”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cluasán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cluasán	chluasán	gcluasán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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