uabhar
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
uabhar m (genitive singular uabhair)
- pride, arrogance
- wounded pride
- spiritedness, exuberance
- (act of) frolicking; frolicksomeness
- rankness, luxuriance
- eeriness, feeling of loneliness
- open-mouthedness, astonishment
Declension[edit]
Declension of uabhar
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- aingeal an uabhair (“fallen angel”)
- anuabhar (“overweening pride”)
- uabhar na gealaí (“moon illusion”)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
uabhar | n-uabhar | huabhar | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úabar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language