murab

Irish

Alternative forms

• mura b’ (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʊɾˠəbˠ/

Particle

murab (copular form used before vowels, form used before consonants mura)

1. if... is not, unless... is (present copular form before a vowel)

   más é nó murab é ― whether it is or not

Derived terms

• murab ionann agus, murab ionann is (“unlike”)

Related terms

Irish copular forms

simple copular forms
		affirmative	negative	interrogative	negative interrogative
present/future
main clause		is	ní	an	nach
relative clause	direct		nach	–
	indirect	ar, arbv
other subordinate clause		gur, gurbv		an	nach
past/conditional
main clause		ba, b’v	níor, níorbhv	ar, arbhv	nár, nárbhv
relative clause	direct	ba, abv	nár, nárbhv	–
	indirect	ar, arbhv
other subordinate clause		gur, gurbhv		ar, arbhv	nár, nárbhv
present subjunctive
–		gura, gurabv	nára, nárabv	–
compound copular forms
base word		present/future		past/conditional
cá		cár, cárbv		cár, cárbhv
cé		cér, cérbv		cér, cérbhv
dá		–		dá mba, dá mb’v
de/do		dar, darbv		dar, darbhv
faoi		faoinar, faoinarbv		faoinar, faoinarbhv
i		inar, inarbv		inar, inarbhv
le		lenar, lenarbv		lenar, lenarbhv
má		más		má ba, má b’v
mura		mura, murabv		murar, murarbhv
ó (preposition)		ónar, ónarbv		ónar, ónarbhv
ó (conjunction)		ós		ó ba, ó b’v
trí		trínar, trínarbv		trínar, trínarbhv

^v Used before vowel sounds

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “murab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “murab”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025