ciabh

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish cíab (“hair (of the head)”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ciəvˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ciəw/

Noun

ciabh f (genitive singular céibhe, nominative plural ciabha)

1. hair, tress

Declension

Declension of ciabh

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ciabh ciabha Vocative a chiabh a chiabha Genitive céibhe ciabh Dative ciabh ciabha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chiabh na ciabha Genitive na céibhe na gciabh Dative leis an gciabh don chiabh leis na ciabha

Derived terms

• céibheann f (“fair-haired lady”)
• ciabhfholt m (“head of hair”)
• ciabhóg f (“lock”)
• ciabhra m (“tresses”)
• ciafart m (“disheveled person”)

 

Related terms

• ciabhach (“long-haired”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ciabh	chiabh	gciabh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciabh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cíab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language