anbhá

Irish

Alternative forms

• anbháthadh

Etymology

From Old Irish anbáthad (“dread, fear, surprise, panic”).

Noun

anbhá m (genitive singular anbhá)

1. consternation, dismay, panic, desperation

Declension

Declension of anbhá

Fourth declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an t-anbhá Genitive an anbhá Dative leis an anbhá don anbhá

Derived terms

• anbhách (“fearful, panicky”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anbhá	n-anbhá	hanbhá	t-anbhá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anbhá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anbáthad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “panic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024