fras

1. mixed mutation of bras

From Old Irish fras (“shower”).

fras f (genitive singular fraise, nominative plural frasa)

1. shower
2. onset, attack
3. (music) run

• fras sneachta (“snowshower”)
• fraschith (“heavy shower”)
• frasnéal (“raincloud”)

• frasach (“showery”)
• frasaigh (“to shower”)

fras (genitive singular masculine frais, genitive singular feminine fraise, plural frasa, comparative fraise)

1. copious, plentiful, abundant

fras

1. alternative form of frasaigh (“to shower”)

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

From Middle Irish frass, from Old Irish fras (“shower”), from Proto-Celtic *wrastâ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérseh₂ (“humidity”), see also Sanskrit वर्षा (varṣā, “rain”), Albanian versë (“dew”), Armenian գայր (gayr, “dirt, mud”), Old Persian باران (bārān, “rain”).

fras f (genitive singular froise, plural frasan)

1. shower
2. seed

• bogha-frois
• còta-froise
• fras cluarain
• frasach

fras (past fhras, future frasaidh, verbal noun frasadh, past participle fraste)

1. rain, scatter, shower, drip

• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “wrasto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 429

From Late Latin phrasis, from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis).

fras c

1. a phrase
2. (grammar) a phrase
3. rustling (like from something dry and brittle, for example dry leaves)
4. crunch (of something airy and crispy)

   Havrefras

   Oat crunch [brand of breakfast cereal]

• frasa
• frasig

• mening
• uttryck

• “fras”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “fras”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “fras”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• fars

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