uachdaran

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish úachtarán, úachtrán m (“head, leader, chief; president, governor; ruler, overseer; master, teacher”).

Noun

uachdaran m (genitive singular uachdarain, plural uachdaranan)

  1. governor, ruler, chief, superior, prince
  2. landlord, landowner
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Noun

uachdaran m pl

  1. plural of uachdar

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uachdaran”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úachtarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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