bósan

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boatswain.

Noun

bósan m (genitive singular bósain, nominative plural bósain)

1. (nautical) boatswain

Declension

Declension of bósan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bósan bósain vocative a bhósain a bhósana genitive bósain bósan dative bósan bósain forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bósan na bósain genitive an bhósain na mbósan dative leis an mbósan don bhósan leis na bósain

Synonyms

• maor loinge

Derived terms

• feadóg bósain (“boatswain's pipe”)
• máta bosáin (“boatswain's mate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bósan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bósan	bhósan	mbósan

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) “bósan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN