borbacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• boirbeacht

Etymology

From Old Irish burbacht, buirbecht.

Noun

borbacht f (genitive singular borbachta)

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

Declension

Declension of borbacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative borbacht Vocative a bhorbacht Genitive borbachta Dative borbacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an bhorbacht Genitive na borbachta Dative leis an mborbacht don bhorbacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
borbacht	bhorbacht	mborbacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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