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

Declension

Declension of cumar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cumar cumair Vocative a chumair a chumara Genitive cumair cumar Dative cumar cumair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cumar na cumair Genitive an chumair na gcumar Dative leis an gcumar don chumar leis na cumair

Derived terms

• cumarach (“channelled, rutted”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cumar	chumar	gcumar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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, 2013-2024