buirbe

Irish

Noun

buirbe f (genitive singular buirbe)

1. Alternative form of boirbe (“fierceness; rudeness; coarseness; rankness”)

Declension

Declension of buirbe

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative buirbe Vocative a bhuirbe Genitive buirbe Dative buirbe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an bhuirbe Genitive na buirbe Dative leis an mbuirbe don bhuirbe

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buirbe	bhuirbe	mbuirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buirbe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈburʲbʲe/

Adjective

buirbe

1. genitive singular feminine of borb

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
buirbe	buirbe pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbuirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish burbae, buirbe, burba, borba (“stupidity, ignorance; boorishness, harshness, fierceness, violence”) (compare Irish boirbe), from borb (“foolish, silly, senseless; stupid, ignorant, unlearned; rude, uncouth; fierce, rough, rude, violent, harsh; arrogant”).

Noun

buirbe f

1. atrocity, barbarism, ferocity, fierceness, rudeness, savagery

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
buirbe	bhuirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “buirbe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “burbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language