Ádhamh

See also: Àdhamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Ádam, from Latin Ādām, Ādāmus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ, Ἄδαμος (Adám, Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (ʾāḏām, “person, human”), from אֲדָמָה (ʾăḏāmâ, “earth, soil”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Galway) IPA^(key): /ɑːvˠ/
• (Mayo) IPA^(key): /ɑːw/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈaːwə/

Proper noun

Ádhamh m (genitive Ádhaimh)

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Adam
2. (biblical) Adam

Declension

Declension of Ádhamh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Ádhamh vocative a Ádhaimh genitive Ádhaimh dative Ádhamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tÁdhamh genitive an Ádhaimh dative leis an Ádhamh don Ádhamh

Derived terms

• Ádhamhchlann (“the human race”, literally “the children of Adam”)
• síol Ádhaimh, sliocht Ádhaimh (“the human race”, literally “Adam’s descendants”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Ádhamh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Ádhamh	nÁdhamh	hÁdhamh	tÁdhamh

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Ádhamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Ádam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Ádhamh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Ádhamh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024