badhbh

Irish

FWOTD – 6 May 2014

Alternative forms

• badhb, baidhbhe

Etymology

From Old Irish badb (“crow, witch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bˠəivˠ/

Noun

badhbh f (genitive singular baidhbhe, nominative plural badhbha)

1. war-goddess
2. vulture or other ravenous bird
3. a scold or curser
4. a female fairy said to be attached to certain families and to foretell death, appearing as a hooded crow
5. (obsolete) hooded crow

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:badhbh.

Declension

Declension of badhbh (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative badhbh badhbha vocative a bhadhbh a bhadhbha genitive baidhbhe badhbh dative badhbh baidhbh (archaic, dialectal) badhbha forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an bhadhbh na badhbha genitive na baidhbhe na mbadhbh dative leis an mbadhbh leis an mbaidhbh (archaic, dialectal) don bhadhbh don bhaidhbh (archaic, dialectal) leis na badhbha

Synonyms

• (vulture): bultúr, garrfhiach
• (hooded crow): feannóg, caróg liath

Derived terms

• badhbh chaointe (“banshee”)
• badhbh ghríofa (“griffon vulture”)
• badhbha (“martial, warlike”, adjective)

Descendants

• → English: bibe
• → Yola: bow

Mutation

Mutated forms of badhbh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
badhbh	bhadhbh	mbadhbh

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “badhbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “baḋḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 46
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “badhbh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “badhbh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026