umar
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish ommar (“trough”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]umar m (genitive singular umair, nominative plural umair)
- trough
- vat
- umar fíona ― wine vat
- tank
- umar camrais ― sewage tank
- umar stórála ― storage tank
- sump
- umar ola ― oil sump
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- gásumar (“pneumatic trough”)
- inneall umair (“tank engine”)
- maide in umar (“(washing) dolly; troublemaker”)
- taiscumar (“holding tank”)
- umar baiste (“baptismal font”)
- umar breosla (“fuel tank”)
- umar coinneála (“holding tank”)
- umar dúigh (“inkstand”)
- umar éisc (“fish tank”)
- umar ocsaigine (“oxygen tank”)
- umar peitril (“petrol tank”)
- umaréasc (“trough fault”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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umar | n-umar | humar | t-umar |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ “umar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ommar, (ammar)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 452, page 146
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “umar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “umar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
Turkish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]umar (definite accusative umarı, plural umarlar)