forc

From forca.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

forc m (plural forcs)

1. a little span (distance from thumb to forefinger)
2. string (bulbs of onion, garlic, etc. tied together in a line for storage)

• enforcar

• pam

• “forc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• farc (Cois Fharraige)

From Old Irish forc, from Latin furca.

• IPA^(key): /fˠɔɾˠk/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /fˠɔɾˠk/, /fˠoːɾˠk/^[1]

forc m (genitive singular foirc, nominative plural foirc)

1. fork

   Synonym: gabhlóg

2. pitchfork

   Synonym: pice

• scian
• spúnóg

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “forc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “forc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “forc”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Borrowed from Latin furca.

• IPA^(key):

forc (gender unknown)

1. fork

   Synonym: gabul

2. pronged spear
3. hand, clutch, grasp

Only the nominative singular and the genitive plural are attested; both forms are forc.

The gender is unknown; the Latin etymon is feminine and the modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic descendants are masculine, but the word is not well attested enough to tell when the gender switch happened.

• Irish: forc
• Scottish Gaelic: forc, forca

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 forc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish forc, from Latin furca. Doublet of forca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrˠxk/

forc m (genitive singular fuirc, plural forcan)

1. Synonym of forca (“fork”)