búcla

See also: bucla and buclă

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bucle, from Old French bocle (“buckle”), from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca (“cheek”).

Noun

búcla m (genitive singular búcla, nominative plural búclaí)

  1. buckle
  2. ringlet (of hair)

Declension

Declension of búcla (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative búcla búclaí
vocative a bhúcla a bhúclaí
genitive búcla búclaí
dative búcla búclaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an búcla na búclaí
genitive an bhúcla na mbúclaí
dative leis an mbúcla
don bhúcla 		leis na búclaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of búcla
radical lenition eclipsis
búcla bhúcla mbúcla

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

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