blás

See also: Appendix:Variations of "blas"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish blás, from the same root as bláth. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).

Pronunciation

Noun

blás m (genitive singular bláis)

  1. bloom
  2. (poker) flush

Declension

Declension of blás (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative blás
vocative a bhláis
genitive bláis
dative blás
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an blás
genitive an bhláis
dative leis an mblás
don bhlás

Derived terms

  • blás ríoga (“royal flush”)
  • blás srathach (“straight flush”)
  • blásaigh
  • bláslionsa

Mutation

Mutated forms of blás
radical lenition eclipsis
blás bhlás mblás

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

Further reading

Old Norse

Verb

blás

  1. second-person singular imperative active of blása
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