uabhas

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• uamhas

Etymology

From Middle Irish úathbás (“horror”) (compare Irish uafás).

Noun

uabhas m (genitive singular uabhais, plural uabhasan)

1. atrocity, enormity, consternation, dismay, dread, horror, monster

Derived terms

• uabhasach

Mutation

Mutation of uabhas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uabhas	n-uabhas	h-uabhas	t-uabhas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “uabhas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathbás, úathfás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language