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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish lebar, lebair (“slender, lithe”).[2]
Adjective
leabhair (genitive singular feminine leabhaire or leabhra, plural leabhaire or leabhra, comparative leabhaire or leabhra)
- long and slender; lithe, supple, pliant
Declension
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Singular
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Plural (m/f)
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Masculine
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Feminine
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(strong noun)
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(weak noun)
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| Nominative
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leabhair
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leabhair
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leabhra
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| Vocative
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leabhair
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leabhra
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| Genitive
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leabhra
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leabhra
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leabhair
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| Dative
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leabhair
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leabhair
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leabhra
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| Comparative
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níos leabhra
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| Superlative
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is leabhra
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Derived terms
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “leabhair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “leabhair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
leabhair m
- inflection of leabhar (“book”):
- vocative/genitive singular
- nominative/dative plural
References
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lebar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language