buirbe

Irish

Noun

buirbe f (genitive singular buirbe)

  1. Alternative form of boirbe (“fierceness; rudeness; coarseness; rankness”)

Declension
Declension of buirbe

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative buirbe
Vocative a bhuirbe
Genitive buirbe
Dative buirbe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an bhuirbe
Genitive na buirbe
Dative leis an mbuirbe

don bhuirbe

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buirbe bhuirbe mbuirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈburʲbʲe/

Adjective

buirbe

  1. genitive singular feminine of borb

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
buirbe buirbe
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/		 mbuirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish burbae, buirbe, burba, borba (“stupidity, ignorance; boorishness, harshness, fierceness, violence”) (compare Irish boirbe), from borb (“foolish, silly, senseless; stupid, ignorant, unlearned; rude, uncouth; fierce, rough, rude, violent, harsh; arrogant”).

Noun

buirbe f

  1. atrocity, barbarism, ferocity, fierceness, rudeness, savagery

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
buirbebhuirbe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “buirbe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “burbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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