branar

Irish

Alternative forms

• branra

Etymology

From Old Irish branar (“fallow land; act of tilling, preparing (land for new crop)”), from Proto-Celtic [Term?] (compare Welsh braenar (“fallow land”). Perhaps ultimately related to *bragnos (“rotten”).

Noun

branar m (genitive singular branair)

1. (agriculture) broken leas, fallow

Declension

Declension of branar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative branar vocative a bhranair genitive branair dative branar forms with the definite article singular nominative an branar genitive an bhranair dative leis an mbranar don bhranar

Derived terms

• branar gan chur (“blank canvas”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of branar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
branar	bhranar	mbranar

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) “branar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 branar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “branar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “branar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025