leabhair
Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish lebar, lebair (“slender, lithe”).[2]
Adjective
editleabhair (genitive singular feminine leabhaire or leabhra, plural leabhaire or leabhra, comparative leabhaire or leabhra)
Declension
editDeclension of leabhair
Declension of leabhair
Derived terms
edit- géagleabhair (“slender-limbed”)
- leabhairchruth (“long slender shape; streamline”)
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “leabhair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “leabhair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editleabhair m
Alternative forms
edit- (plural): leabhartha (Connemara)
References
edit- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lebar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language