cumar

See also: Cumar

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

cumar m (genitive singular cumair, nominative plural cumair)

1. ravine (usually with stream)
2. steep-sided inlet (of sea)
3. channel, rut
4. confluence of two or more rivers.

Declension

Declension of cumar (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cumar cumair vocative a chumair a chumara genitive cumair cumar dative cumar cumair forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an cumar na cumair genitive an chumair na gcumar dative leis an gcumar don chumar leis na cumair

Alternative forms

• comar (obsolete)

Derived terms

• cumarach (“channelled, rutted”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cumar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cumar	chumar	gcumar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cumar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cumar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cumar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025