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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
co- + earbsa
Noun
coimhearp f (genitive singular coimhirp)
- competing, rivalry, competition
- Synonym: co-fharpais
- arguing
- controversy
- In conjunction with the preposition air: co-operating
- The principle of striving to be "no better than one's neighbours"; a principle of Hebridean crofting communities akin to the Law of Jante.
Further reading
- Rev. Fr. Allan Macdonald, Gaelic Words and Expressions from South Uist and Eriskay