meabhair

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mebuir (“recollection, memory”), from Latin memoria.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mʲauɾʲ/, /ˈmʲawəɾʲ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /mʲauɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mʲoːɾʲ/, [mʲõːɾʲ]

Noun

meabhair f (genitive singular meabhrach)

1. mind, sense
2. intellect, reason, intelligence
3. sanity

Declension

Declension of meabhair

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative meabhair Vocative a mheabhair Genitive meabhrach Dative meabhair meabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an mheabhair Genitive na meabhrach Dative leis an meabhair leis an meabhraigh (archaic, dialectal) don mheabhair don mheabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

• meabhairéalangach (“mental defective”)
• meabhairghalar (“mental illness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meabhair	mheabhair	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “meabhair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “meabhair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024