uabhas

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish úathbás (“horror”) (compare Irish uafás).

Noun

uabhas m (genitive singular uabhais, plural uabhasan)

  1. atrocity, enormity, consternation, dismay, dread, horror, monster

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of uabhas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uabhas n-uabhas h-uabhas t-uabhas

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uabhas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathbás, úathfás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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