dobhar

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dobur, from Proto-Celtic *dubros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubʰrós (“deep”). Compare Welsh dwfr.

Noun

dobhar m (genitive singular dobhair, nominative plural dobhartha)

  2. water, moisture, sea
    tar dobhartha ― across the sea
Declension
Declension of dobhar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative dobhar dobhartha
vocative a dhobhair a dhobhartha
genitive dobhair dobhartha
dative dobhar dobhartha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an dobhar na dobhartha
genitive an dobhair na ndobhartha
dative leis an dobhar
don dobhar 		leis na dobhartha
Synonyms
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dobur.

Adjective

dobhar (genitive singular masculine dobhair, genitive singular feminine dobhaire, plural dobhara, comparative dobhaire)

  2. (literary) dark, gloomy, obscure, foul
Declension
Declension of dobhar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative dobhar dhobhar dobhara;
dhobhara2
vocative dhobhair dobhara
genitive dobhaire dobhara dobhar
dative dobhar;
dhobhar1 		dhobhar;
dhobhair (archaic) 		dobhara;
dhobhara2
Comparative níos dobhaire
Superlative is dobhaire

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Further reading

Mutation

Mutated forms of dobhar
radical lenition eclipsis
dobhar dhobhar ndobhar

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 dobur (‘water’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dobur (‘dark, unclean’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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