uabhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úabar.

Noun

uabhar m (genitive singular uabhair)

1. pride, arrogance
2. wounded pride
3. spiritedness, exuberance
4. (act of) frolicking; frolicksomeness
5. rankness, luxuriance
6. eeriness, feeling of loneliness
7. open-mouthedness, astonishment

Declension

Declension of uabhar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative uabhar Vocative a uabhair Genitive uabhair Dative uabhar

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-uabhar Genitive an uabhair Dative leis an uabhar don uabhar

Derived terms

• aingeal an uabhair (“fallen angel”)
• anuabhar (“overweening pride”)
• uabhar na gealaí (“moon illusion”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uabhar	n-uabhar	huabhar	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) “uabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “úabar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language