fuafar

Irish

Alternative forms

• fuathmhar (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúathmar (“hateful, odious”), from Old Irish úathmar (“dreadful; terrifying”). By surface analysis, fuath (“hate, hatred”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fuafar (genitive singular masculine fuafair, genitive singular feminine fuafaire, plural fuafara, comparative fuafaire)

1. hateful, hideous, odious

   Synonym: gráiniúil

Declension

Declension of fuafar

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	fuafar	fhuafar	fuafara; fhuafara2
vocative	fhuafair		fuafara
genitive		fuafare	fuafara	fuafar
dative	fuafar; fhuafar1	fhuafar; fhuafair (archaic)	fuafara; fhuafara2
Comparative	níos fuafare
Superlative	is fuafare

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

• fuathúil

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuafar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuafar	fhuafar	bhfuafar

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) “fuafar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language