amplachán

Irish

Etymology

From amplach (“hungry; greedy”) +‎ -án.

Noun

amplachán m (genitive singular amplacháin, nominative plural amplacháin)

1. greedy person

Declension

Declension of amplachán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative amplachán amplacháin vocative a amplacháin a amplachána genitive amplacháin amplachán dative amplachán amplacháin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-amplachán na hamplacháin genitive an amplacháin na n-amplachán dative leis an amplachán don amplachán leis na hamplacháin

Synonyms

• amplóir m

Mutation

Mutated forms of amplachán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amplachán	n-amplachán	hamplachán	t-amplachán

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amplachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN