anbhá

Irish

Alternative forms

• anbháthadh

Etymology

From Old Irish anbáthad (“dread, fear, surprise, panic”).

Noun

anbhá m (genitive singular anbhá)

1. consternation, dismay, panic, desperation

Declension

Declension of anbhá (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative anbhá vocative a anbhá genitive anbhá dative anbhá forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-anbhá genitive an anbhá dative leis an anbhá don anbhá

Derived terms

• anbhách (“fearful, panicky”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of anbhá

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anbhá	n-anbhá	hanbhá	t-anbhá

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) “anbhá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anbáthad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “panic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025