boirbe

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish burbae (“stupidity, ignorance; boorishness, harshness, fierceness, violence”), from borb.

Noun

boirbe f (genitive singular boirbe)

1. 1. fierceness; rudeness
   2. coarseness
   3. rankness

   Synonyms: boirbeacht, borbacht

Declension

Declension of boirbe

Fourth declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an bhoirbe Genitive na boirbe Dative leis an mboirbe don bhoirbe

Alternative forms

• borba, buirbe

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

boirbe

1. inflection of borb:
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. comparative degree

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
boirbe	bhoirbe	mboirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “boirbe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “boirbe”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “boirbe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “burbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language