ciombal

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cimbal, borrowed from Latin cymbalum,[2] from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon).

Noun

ciombal m (genitive singular ciombail, nominative plural ciombail)

  1. (music) cymbal

Declension

Declension of ciombal (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ciombal ciombail
vocative a chiombail a chiombala
genitive ciombail ciombal
dative ciombal ciombail
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ciombal na ciombail
genitive an chiombail na gciombal
dative leis an gciombal
don chiombal 		leis na ciombail

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ciombal
radical lenition eclipsis
ciombal chiombal gciombal

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

References

  1. ^ “cimbeal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cimbal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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