fabhra

Irish

Alternative forms

• abhra

Etymology

From Old Irish fabra, abra.

Noun

fabhra m (genitive singular fabhra, nominative plural fabhraí)

1. eyelash
2. eyebrow
3. (in the plural) fringe

Declension

Declension of fabhra (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fabhra fabhraí vocative a fhabhra a fhabhraí genitive fabhra fabhraí dative fabhra fabhraí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fabhra na fabhraí genitive an fhabhra na bhfabhraí dative leis an bhfabhra don fhabhra leis na fabhraí

Derived terms

• fabhraíoch (“pertaining to eyelashes, ciliary”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fabhra

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fabhra	fhabhra	bhfabhra

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