badhbha

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish badbda (“appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal”), from Old Irish bodbdae.

Adjective

badhbha

1. martial, warlike

Declension

Declension of badhbha

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	badhbha	bhadhbha	badhbha; bhadhbha²
Vocative	bhadhbha		badhbha
Genitive		badhbha	badhbha	badhbha
Dative	badhbha; bhadhbha¹	bhadhbha	badhbha; bhadhbha²
Comparative	níos badhbha
Superlative	is badhbha

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Noun

badhbha f pl

1. nominative/dative plural of badhbh (“hooded crow”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
badhbha	bhadhbha	mbadhbha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.