Búdaí

See also: budai and búdaí

Irish

Etymology 1

From Búda (“Buddha”) +‎ -aí.

Noun

Búdaí m (genitive singular Búdaí, nominative plural Búdaithe)

1. Buddhist

Declension

Declension of Búdaí (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Búdaí Búdaithe vocative a Bhúdaí a Bhúdaithe genitive Búdaí Búdaithe dative Búdaí Búdaithe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an Búdaí na Búdaithe genitive an Bhúdaí na mBúdaithe dative leis an mBúdaí don Bhúdaí leis na Búdaithe

Derived terms

• Búdaíoch (“Buddhist”, adjective)

Related terms

• Búdachas m (“Buddhism”)
• búda m (“buddha”)

 

Etymology 2

Noun

Búdaí m pl

1. plural of Búda

Mutation

Mutated forms of Búdaí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Búdaí	Bhúdaí	mBúdaí

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) “Búdaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Búdaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Búdaí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024