cúramach

See also: curamach and cùramach

Irish

Etymology

From cúram +‎ -ach. Compare Manx currymagh and Scottish Gaelic cùramach.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɾˠəmˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɾˠəmˠa(h)/

Adjective

cúramach (genitive singular masculine cúramaigh, genitive singular feminine cúramaí, plural cúramacha, comparative cúramaí)

1. careful
2. tender
3. busy, full of care

Declension

Declension of cúramach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	cúramach	chúramach	cúramacha; chúramacha²
Vocative	chúramaigh		cúramacha
Genitive		cúramaí	cúramacha	cúramach
Dative	cúramach; chúramach¹	chúramach; chúramaigh (archaic)	cúramacha; chúramacha²
Comparative	níos cúramaí
Superlative	is cúramaí

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

Derived terms

• anchúramach (“over-solicitous; officious”, adjective)
• mórchúramach (“exercising great care, great responsibility”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cúramach	chúramach	gcúramach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúramach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cúramach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “careful”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024