uabhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úabar.

Noun

uabhar m (genitive singular uabhair)

1. pride, arrogance
2. wounded pride
3. spiritedness, exuberance
4. (act of) frolicking; frolicksomeness
5. rankness, luxuriance
6. eeriness, feeling of loneliness
7. open-mouthedness, astonishment

Declension

Declension of uabhar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative uabhar vocative a uabhair genitive uabhair dative uabhar forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-uabhar genitive an uabhair dative leis an uabhar don uabhar

Derived terms

• aingeal an uabhair (“fallen angel”)
• anuabhar (“overweening pride”)
• uabhar na gealaí (“moon illusion”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of uabhar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uabhar	n-uabhar	huabhar	not applicable

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