cóán

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 公案 (kōan), from Chinese 公案 (gōng'àn, “official business”).

Noun

cóán m (genitive singular cóáin, nominative plural cóáin)

1. (Buddhism) koan

Declension

Declension of cóán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cóán cóáin vocative a chóáin a chóána genitive cóáin cóán dative cóán cóáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cóán na cóáin genitive an chóáin na gcóán dative leis an gcóán don chóán leis na cóáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of cóán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cóán	chóán	gcóán

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