meabhair

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mebuir (“recollection, memory”), from Latin memoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲəuɾʲ/

Noun

meabhair f (genitive singular meabhrach)

1. mind, memory
2. intelligence, intellect; power of thought; attention
3. consciousness, awareness
4. mind, reason
5. sensation, feeling
6. sense, meaning
7. mind, intention

Declension

Declension of meabhair

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative meabhair Vocative a mheabhair Genitive meabhrach Dative meabhair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an mheabhair Genitive na meabhrach Dative leis an meabhair don mheabhair

Derived terms

• meabhairéalangach (“mental defective”)
• meabhairghalar (“mental illness”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meabhair	mheabhair	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “awareness”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “consciousness”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “intellect”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “mind”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “reason”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mebair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “meabhair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “meabhair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024