bacachas

Irish

Alternative forms

• bacadas

Etymology

From bacach (“lame person; beggar”) +‎ -as.

Noun

bacachas m (genitive singular bacachais)

1. (act of) begging, sponging

Declension

Declension of bacachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bacachas vocative a bhacachais genitive bacachais dative bacachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bacachas genitive an bhacachais dative leis an mbacachas don bhacachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of bacachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bacachas	bhacachas	mbacachas

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) “bacachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bacachas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm