umar

See also: Umar, umăr, and ümar

Irish

Alternative forms

• omar

Etymology

From Old Irish ommar (“trough for holding water; large vessel in general; tub, vat”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌmˠəɾˠ/

Noun

umar m (genitive singular umair, nominative plural umair)

1. trough
2. font

   umar uisce choisricthe ― (holy-water) font, stoup

3. vat

   umar fíona ― wine vat

4. tank

   umar camrais ― sewage tank

   umar stórála ― storage tank

5. sink, sump

   umar ola ― oil sump

Declension

Declension of umar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative umar umair Vocative a umair a umara Genitive umair umar Dative umar umair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-umar na humair Genitive an umair na n-umar Dative leis an umar don umar leis na humair

Derived terms

• gásumar (“pneumatic trough”)
• inneall umair (“tank engine”)
• maide in umar (“(washing) dolly; troublemaker”)
• taiscumar (“holding tank”)
• umar baiste (“baptismal font”)
• umar breosla (“fuel tank”)
• umar coinneála (“holding tank”)
• umar dúigh (“inkstand”)
• umar éisc (“fish tank”)
• umar ocsaigine (“oxygen tank”)
• umar peitril (“petrol tank”)
• umaréasc (“trough fault”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
umar	n-umar	humar	t-umar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “umar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “cistern”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “sump”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “tank”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “trough”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “umar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language