sgrath

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Cognate with Irish scrath; see Old Irish scaraid (“to tear apart”).

Noun

sgrath f (genitive singular sgratha, plural sgrathan)

1. outer skin or rind of anything, husk, peel, crust
2. bark (of a tree)
3. layer of an onion
4. turf, green sod, divot, as used for covering roofs of houses
5. horror, dread
6. rust
7. scale (balance)
8. rough handling
9. long rhyme
10. pull, tug
11. what covers the kiln of grain
12. greensward

Derived terms

• sgrathail

Noun

sgrath m

1. (anatomy) cortex

Verb

sgrath (past sgrath, future sgrathaidh, verbal noun sgrathadh, past participle sgrathte)

1. peel, skin, exfoliate
2. pare, excoriate
3. tug, pull or handle roughly

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgrath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page sgrath