amhras

Irish

From Old Irish amaires (“unbelief”).

amhras m (genitive singular amhrais)

doubt
gan amhras ― without doubt, undoubtedly

Chuir sé amhras ar mo scéal.
He cast doubt on my story.
suspicion (with ar plus the person or thing suspected)
Tá amhras agam air; Tá mé in amhras air.
I suspect him.

Tá siad ag amhras orm.
They’re suspicious of me.
opinion, guess; speculation

Declension of amhras

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Terms derived from amhras

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amhras	n-amhras	hamhras	t-amhras
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

“am(a)ires” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“aṁras” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 36.
"amhras" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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