buar

See also: búar and büar

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish búar (“cattle, cows, kine”), from bó (“cow”).

Noun

buar m (genitive singular buair)

1. cattle, kine

Derived terms

• buarán (“dried cow dung”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish búar (“diarrhoea”).

Noun

buar m (genitive singular buair)

1. (veterinary medicine) scour

Declension

Declension of buar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative buar vocative a bhuair genitive buair dative buar forms with the definite article singular nominative an buar genitive an bhuair dative leis an mbuar don bhuar

Mutation

Mutated forms of buar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buar	bhuar	mbuar

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “buar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From bu +‎ -ar.

Noun

buar m (definite singular buaren, indefinite plural buarar, definite plural buarane)

1. (usually in compounds) a habitant

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms suffixed with -buar

ibuar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

buar

1. present tense of bue

References

• “-bura” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• bura