bosca

See also: Bosca, boscà, and bošča

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bauscia or *baucia, of Germanic origin. Compare Italian bugia, Friulian bausie, Occitan bauzia, bauza, Old French boisie, Sardinian bigía, busia.

Noun

bosca f

1. lie, untruth

Related terms

• boscurd

Irish

Alternative forms

• bocsa (Ulster)
• bosga (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɔsˠkə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠʊsˠkə/, /ˈbˠɞsˠkə/

Noun

bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)

1. box (container)
2. box (tree or shrub of the genus Buxus), boxwood

Declension

Declension of bosca (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative bosca boscaí vocative a bhosca a bhoscaí genitive bosca boscaí dative bosca boscaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an bosca na boscaí genitive an bhosca na mboscaí dative leis an mbosca don bhosca leis na boscaí

Derived terms

• bosca abhlainne
• bosca acastóra
• bosca airgid
• bosca ceoil
• bosca cipíní
• bosca compáis
• bosca éistigh
• bosca faoistine
• bosca guail
• bosca litreacha
• bosca luatha
• bosca muinchille
• bosca poist
• bosca ríomhphoist
• bosca seod
• bosca snaoise
• bosca stuála
• ceolbhosca
• crann bosca
• fál bosca
• giocsaí i mbosca
• taebhosca

Mutation

Mutated forms of bosca

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bosca	bhosca	mbosca

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), “bosca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bosca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
• “bosca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025