beacán

Irish

Noun

beacán m (genitive singular beacáin, nominative plural beacáin)

mushroom
Synonym: muisiriún

Declension

Declension of beacán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	beacán	beacáin
Vocative	a bheacáin	a bheacána
Genitive	beacáin	beacán
Dative	beacán	beacáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an beacán	na beacáin
Genitive	an bheacáin	na mbeacán
Dative	leis an mbeacán don bheacán	leis na beacáin

Derived terms

Terms derived from beacán

beacán capaill m (“horse mushroom”)
beacán cnaipe m (“button mushroom”)

beacán draíochta m (“magic mushroom”)
beacán síotaicé m (“shiitake mushroom”)

curadóir beacán m (“mushroom-grower”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
beacán	bheacán	mbeacán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"beacán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Entries containing “beacán” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “beacán” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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