garma

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish garman (“weaver's beam”).

Noun

garma f (genitive singular garman, nominative plural garmana or garmna)

1. (textiles) beam

   Synonym: maide garman

Declension

Standard

Declension of garma (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative garma garmana vocative a gharma a gharmana genitive garman garmana dative garma garmain (archaic, dialectal) garmana forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gharma na garmana genitive na garman na ngarmana dative leis an ngarma leis an ngarmain (archaic, dialectal) don gharma don gharmain (archaic, dialectal) leis na garmana

Nonstandard

Declension of garma (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative garma garmna vocative a gharma a gharmna genitive garmna garmna dative garma garmain (archaic, dialectal) garmna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gharma na garmna genitive na garmna na ngarmna dative leis an ngarma leis an ngarmain (archaic, dialectal) don gharma don gharmain (archaic, dialectal) leis na garmna

Derived terms

• garma croiche f (“crossbeam of a gallows”)
• garma geata f (“gatepost”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of garma

radical	lenition	eclipsis
garma	gharma	ngarma

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