meabhair

Irish

From Middle Irish mebair, from Old Irish mebuir (“recollection, memory”), from Latin memoria.^[1]

meabhair f (genitive singular meabhrach)

Declension of meabhair (fifth declension, no plural)

bare forms
	singular
nominative	meabhair
vocative	a mheabhair
genitive	meabhrach
dative	meabhair meabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an mheabhair
genitive	na meabhrach
dative	leis an meabhair leis an meabhraigh (archaic, dialectal) don mheabhair don mheabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutated forms of *meabhair*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
meabhair	mheabhair	not applicable

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mebair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “meaḃair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 720; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “meabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “meabhair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“meabhair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026