ábhar

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈauɾˠ/, /ˈɑːvˠəɾˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɑːwəɾˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaːwəɾˠ/[1]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish adbar.[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic adhbhar and Manx oyr.

Noun

ábhar m (genitive singular ábhair, nominative plural ábhair)

  1. matter, material
  2. makings, potential qualities
  3. cause, reason
  4. subject, topic
  5. object
  6. matter, pus
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Noun

ábhar m (genitive singular ábhair, nominative plural ábhair)

  1. (nautical) bed of rowlock

Declension

Declension of ábhar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ábhar ábhair
vocative a ábhair a ábhara
genitive ábhair ábhar
dative ábhar ábhair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-ábhar na hábhair
genitive an ábhair na n-ábhar
dative leis an ábhar
don ábhar 		leis na hábhair

Mutation

Mutated forms of ábhar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ábhar n-ábhar hábhar t-ábhar

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 17, page 10
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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