gabháil

See also gabhail

Irish

Alternative forms

• (Connacht) goil
• (barm, yeast, leaven): gabháilt

Etymology

gabh +‎ -áil

Noun

gabháil m (genitive gabhála, nominative plural gabhálacha)

1. Verbal noun of gabh.
2. catch, seizure, capture; assumption (of authority); occupation (of territory); acceptance; undertaking; tolerance
3. fitting, adjustment; yoke, harness; attire; control; prop, support
4. (music, poetry) rendering
5. barm, yeast, leaven

Declension

Declension of gabháil

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative gabháil gabhálacha Vocative a ghabháil a ghabhálacha Genitive gabhála gabhálacha Dative gabháil gabhálacha

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an gabháil na gabhálacha Genitive an ghabhála na ngabhálacha Dative leis an ngabháil don ghabháil leis na gabhálacha

Synonyms

• giosta (“yeast”)

Derived terms

• gabhálach (“taking, catching; receptive; contagious; gripping, grasping, occupying; possessive, avaricious”)
• gabhálacht (“receptiveness, receptivity; contagiousness; graspingness, avarice”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gabháil	ghabháil	ngabháil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.