leabhair

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish lebar, lebair (slender, lithe).[2]

Adjective

leabhair (genitive singular feminine leabhaire or leabhra, plural leabhaire or leabhra, comparative leabhaire or leabhra)

  1. long and slender; lithe, supple, pliant
Declension
Declension of leabhair
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative leabhair leabhair leabhaire
vocative leabhair leabhaire
genitive leabhaire leabhaire leabhair
dative leabhair leabhair leabhaire
Comparative níos leabhaire
Superlative is leabhaire
Declension of leabhair
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative leabhair leabhair leabhra
vocative leabhair leabhra
genitive leabhra leabhra leabhair
dative leabhair leabhair leabhra
Comparative níos leabhra
Superlative is leabhra
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

leabhair m

  1. inflection of leabhar (book):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural
Alternative forms

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lebar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language