feolmhar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From feoil (“flesh, meat”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

feolmhar (genitive singular masculine feolmhair, genitive singular feminine feolmhaire, plural feolmhara, comparative feolmhaire)

  1. fleshy, meaty; fat, flabby, plump, rotund

Declension

Declension of feolmhar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative feolmhar fheolmhar feolmhara;
fheolmhara2
vocative fheolmhair feolmhara
genitive feolmhare feolmhara feolmhar
dative feolmhar;
fheolmhar1 		fheolmhar;
fheolmhair (archaic) 		feolmhara;
fheolmhara2
Comparative níos feolmhare
Superlative is feolmhare

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of feolmhar
radical lenition eclipsis
feolmhar fheolmhar bhfeolmhar

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) “feolmhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “fleshy”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  • “meaty”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  • “plump”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  • “rotund”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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