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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish sparán (compare Scottish Gaelic sporan), possibly from Late Latin bursa (“purse”), ultimately from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “leather, hide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sparán m (genitive singular sparáin, nominative plural sparáin)
- purse
- Synonym: mála
- sporran
- (animals) stomach
Declension
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References
Further reading
- “sparán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sparán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sparán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sparán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “sparán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 38