abarach

Irish

Etymology

From abar (“boggy ground, morass”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

abarach (genitive singular masculine abaraigh, genitive singular feminine abaraí, plural abaracha, comparative abaraí)

1. boggy, muddy, sloughy

Declension

Declension of abarach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	abarach	abarach	abaracha
vocative	abaraigh		abaracha
genitive		abaraí	abaracha	abarach
dative	abarach	abarach; abaraigh (archaic)	abaracha
Comparative	níos abaraí
Superlative	is abaraí

Mutation

Mutated forms of abarach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
abarach	n-abarach	habarach	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), “abarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “abarach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm