adhbha

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adba (“abode, dwelling place”), verbal noun of *ad·fen.

Noun

adhbha f (genitive singular adhbhadh, nominative plural adhbhtha)

1. (literary) abode
2. lair

   Synonym: fáir

Declension

Declension of adhbha (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative adhbha adhbhtha vocative a adhbha a adhbhtha genitive adhbhadh adhbhadh dative adhbha adhbhtha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an adhbha na hadhbhtha genitive na hadhbhadh na n-adhbhadh dative leis an adhbha don adhbha leis na hadhbhtha

Derived terms

• adhbha éaga (“abode of death”)
• adhbha rón (“seal rookery”)
• adhbha sionnach (“foxes' lair”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhbha

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhbha	n-adhbha	hadhbha	not applicable

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) “adhbha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 adba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “adhbha”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024