crobh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crob.

Noun

crobh m or f (genitive singular croibh or croibhe, nominative plural croibh or crobha)

1. hand; clawed foot, paw; talons

Declension

Declension of crobh

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative crobh croibh Vocative a chroibh a chrobha Genitive croibh crobh Dative crobh croibh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an crobh na croibh Genitive an chroibh na gcrobh Dative leis an gcrobh don chrobh leis na croibh

Alternative declension

Declension of crobh

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative crobh crobha Vocative a chrobh a chrobha Genitive croibhe crobh Dative crobh crobha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chrobh na crobha Genitive na croibhe na gcrobh Dative leis an gcrobh don chrobh leis na crobha

Derived terms

• crobh dearg, crobh geal, crobh gioblach, crobh gorm (“(kinds of) crane's-bill”)
• crobh fola (“geranium”)
• crobh préacháin (“crowfoot”)
• crobhán (“small hand, paw”)
• crobhchrág (“dogclutch”)
• crobhlasc (“pear-switch”)
• crobhneart (“strength of hand”)
• crobhóg (“tiny hand”)
• crobhscaoilte (“open-handed”, adjective)
• crobhspíce (“dog-spike”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crobh	chrobh	gcrobh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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