crobh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crob, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos (“hoof”), itself related to *karwos (“stag”).

Noun

crobh m (genitive singular croibh, nominative plural croibh) or
crobh f (genitive singular croibhe, nominative plural crobha)

hand; clawed foot, paw; talons

Declension

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of crobh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crobh	croibh
Vocative	a chroibh	a chrobha
Genitive	croibh	crobh
Dative	crobh	croibh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an crobh	na croibh
Genitive	an chroibh	na gcrobh
Dative	leis an gcrobh don chrobh	leis na croibh

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of crobh

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crobh	crobha
Vocative	a chrobh	a chrobha
Genitive	croibhe	crobh
Dative	crobh croibh (archaic, dialectal)	crobha

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an chrobh	na crobha
Genitive	na croibhe	na gcrobh
Dative	leis an gcrobh leis an gcroibh (archaic, dialectal) don chrobh don chroibh (archaic, dialectal)	leis na crobha

Derived terms

crobh fola (“geranium”)
crobh préacháin (“crowfoot”)
crobhán (“small hand, paw”)
crobhchrág (“dogclutch”)
crobhlasc (“pear-switch”)
crobhneart (“strength of hand”)
crobhóg (“tiny hand”)
crobhscaoilte (“open-handed”, adjective)
crobhspíce (“dog-spike”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crobh	chrobh	gcrobh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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“claw”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crob”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “crubh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN