deabhadh

See also: dèabhadh

Irish

From Old Irish debuith (“strife, contention”).^[1]^[2]

deabhadh m (genitive singular deabhaidh)

hurry, haste
Synonyms: deifir, dithneas

Tá deabhadh an tsaoil uirthi. ― She’s in a desperate hurry.

Declension of deabhadh (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an deabhadh
genitive	an deabhaidh
dative	leis an deabhadh don deabhadh

Mutated forms of *deabhadh*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
deabhadh	dheabhadh	ndeabhadh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “debuith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 deibed (‘haste, hurry’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102