sclábhaí

• sclábh, sclábhuidhe (both obsolete)

From Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”) (from Late Latin Sclāvus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos)) + -aí.

sclábhaí m (genitive singular sclábhaí, nominative plural sclábhaithe)

1. slave
2. laborer, toiler
3. hack, drudge
4. mean, miserable person

• bansclábhaí (“handmaid”)
• sclábhaíocht

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scláb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sclábuide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sclábhaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sclábhaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “sclábhaí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025