eabhar

Irish

Alternative forms

• éabhar

Etymology

From Old Irish ebur, from Latin ebur.

Noun

eabhar m or f (genitive singular eabhair or eabhra or eabhaire)

1. ivory

Declension

Declension of eabhar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative eabhar vocative a eabhair genitive eabhair dative eabhar forms with the definite article singular nominative an t-eabhar genitive an eabhair dative leis an eabhar don eabhar

as feminine noun

Declension of eabhar (third declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative eabhar vocative a eabhar genitive eabhra dative eabhar forms with the definite article singular nominative an eabhar genitive na heabhra dative leis an eabhar don eabhar

Declension of eabhar (second declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative eabhar vocative a eabhar genitive eabhaire dative eabhar forms with the definite article singular nominative an eabhar genitive na heabhaire dative leis an eabhar don eabhar

Derived terms

• An Cósta Eabhair m (“Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast”)
• eabhairín m (“ivorine”)
• eabhardhubh m (“ivory black”)
• eabhartha (“ivory”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eabhar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eabhar	n-eabhar	heabhar	t-eabhar

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), “eabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ebur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “eabhar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “eabhar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025