bladar

Catalan

Etymology

From blat +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [bləˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [blaˈðaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [blaˈða]

Noun

bladar m (plural bladars)

1. wheat field

Further reading

• “bladar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Irish

Alternative forms

• blandar

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠl̪ˠɑd̪ˠəɾˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠlɑd̪ˠəɾˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠlˠad̪ˠəɾˠ/, /ˈbˠl̪ˠad̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

bladar m (genitive singular bladair, uncountable)

1. verbal noun of bladair (“cajole; adulate, flatter”)
2. cajolery; flattery

Declension

Declension of bladar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative bladar vocative a bhladair genitive bladair dative bladar forms with the definite article singular nominative an bladar genitive an bhladair dative leis an mbladar don bhladar

Derived terms

• bladrach (“cajoling, flattering”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bladar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bladar	bhladar	mbladar

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), “bladar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “flattery”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bladar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 15