pùball

See also: puball

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish pupall (“tent, pavilion; awning or baldaquin over a chariot”).

Noun

pùball m (genitive singular pùbaill, plural pùballan)

1. tent, pavilion, booth, marquee

   Shuidhich iad am pùbaill.

   They pitched their tents.

2. alcove
3. covering

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “pùball”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pupall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language