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Irish
Etymology
From leadair + -án.
Noun
leadrán m (genitive singular leadráin)
- (act of) lingering, loitering, dilly-dallying
- dilatoriness, slowness
- tedium
Declension
Derived terms
- leadránach (“dilatory, loitering, lingering; slow, tedious”, adjective)
- leadránacht f (“dilatoriness; tediousness”)
- leadránaí m (“bore, tedious person”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leadrán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ledrán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language