ubhal

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• ùbhal

Etymology

From Old Irish uball, from Proto-Celtic *abalo- (“apple”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Noun

ubhal m (genitive singular ubhail, plural ùbhlan)

1. apple

Derived terms

• dearc-ubhal (“oak apple”)
• fiadh-ubhal (“crab apple”)
• lionn-ubhal (“apple cider”)

 

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ubhal”, 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), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language