béabhar

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English bever, from Old English befer (“beaver”), from Proto-Germanic *bebruz (“beaver”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).

Noun

béabhar m (genitive singular béabhair, nominative plural béabhair)

  1. beaver
  2. beaver hat

Declension

Declension of béabhar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative béabhar béabhair
vocative a bhéabhair a bhéabhara
genitive béabhair béabhar
dative béabhar béabhair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an béabhar na béabhair
genitive an bhéabhair na mbéabhar
dative leis an mbéabhar
don bhéabhar 		leis na béabhair

Mutation

Mutated forms of béabhar
radical lenition eclipsis
béabhar bhéabhar mbéabhar

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

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “béabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “beaver”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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