tuirbín

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from French turbine, from Latin turbō (“circular movement”), adapted to the suffix -ín.

Noun

tuirbín m (genitive singular tuirbín, nominative plural tuirbíní)

1. turbine

Declension

Declension of tuirbín (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tuirbín tuirbíní vocative a thuirbín a thuirbíní genitive tuirbín tuirbíní dative tuirbín tuirbíní forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tuirbín na tuirbíní genitive an tuirbín na dtuirbíní dative leis an tuirbín don tuirbín leis na tuirbíní

Derived terms

• tuirbín gaile (“steam turbine”)
• tuirbín gaoithe (“wind turbine”)
• tuirbínghluaiste (“turbine-driven”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuirbín

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tuirbín	thuirbín	dtuirbín

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) “tuirbín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN