bardal

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

bardal m (genitive singular bardail, nominative plural bardail)

1. drake (male duck)

Declension

Declension of bardal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bardal bardail vocative a bhardail a bhardala genitive bardail bardal dative bardal bardail forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bardal na bardail genitive an bhardail na mbardal dative leis an mbardal don bhardal leis na bardail

Mutation

Mutated forms of bardal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bardal	bhardal	mbardal

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) “bardal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bardal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bardal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Spanish

Noun

bardal m (plural bardales)

1. a kind of wall
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:

     En distantes bardales reposaba la celeste curva del cielo, y sólo entristecía la calleja el monótono rumor de una sierra sinfín o el mugido de las vacas en el tambo.

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2. barbed-wire fence

Further reading

• “bardal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28