bardal

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

bardal m (genitive singular bardail, nominative plural bardail)

1. drake (male duck)

Declension

Declension of bardal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bardal bardail Vocative a bhardail a bhardala Genitive bardail bardal Dative bardal bardail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bardal na bardail Genitive an bhardail na mbardal Dative leis an mbardal don bhardal leis na bardail

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bardal	bhardal	mbardal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bardal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “bardal” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bardal” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Spanish

Noun

bardal m (plural bardales)

1. a kind of wall
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:

     En distantes bardales reposaba la celeste curva del cielo, y sólo entristecía la calleja el monótono rumor de una sierra sinfín o el mugido de las vacas en el tambo.

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2. barbed-wire fence

Further reading

• “bardal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014