buirbe

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Irish

Noun

buirbe f (genitive singular buirbe)

  1. Alternative form of boirbe (“fierceness; rudeness; coarseness; rankness”)

Declension

Declension of buirbe (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative buirbe
vocative a bhuirbe
genitive buirbe
dative buirbe
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an bhuirbe
genitive na buirbe
dative leis an mbuirbe
don bhuirbe

Mutation

Mutated forms of buirbe
radical lenition eclipsis
buirbe bhuirbe mbuirbe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

buirbe

  1. genitive singular feminine of borb

Mutation

Mutation of buirbe
radical lenition nasalization
buirbe buirbe
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbuirbe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish burbae, buirbe, burba, borba (“stupidity, ignorance; boorishness, harshness, fierceness, violence”) (compare Irish boirbe), from borb (“foolish, silly, senseless; stupid, ignorant, unlearned; rude, uncouth; fierce, rough, rude, violent, harsh; arrogant”).

Noun

buirbe f

  1. atrocity, barbarism, ferocity, fierceness, rudeness, savagery

Mutation

Mutation of buirbe
radical lenition
buirbe bhuirbe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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