bodhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bodar, from Proto-Celtic *bodaros, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰodʰHrós. Cognate with Kamkata-viri bera (“dumb”), Sanskrit बधिर (badhirá).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bˠəuɾˠ/
  • (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /bˠɑuɾˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /bˠoːɾˠ/

Adjective

bodhar (genitive singular masculine bodhair, genitive singular feminine bodhaire, plural bodhra, comparative bodhaire)

  1. deaf
  2. bothered, confused
  3. (of sound) dull
  4. (of limb) numb
  5. (of rock) immovable; (of water) stagnant

Declension
Declension of bodhar
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative bodhar bhodhar bodhra;
bhodhra²
Vocative bhodhair bodhra
Genitive bodhaire bodhra bodhar
Dative bodhar;
bhodhar¹		 bhodhar;
bhodhair (archaic)		 bodhra;
bhodhra²
Comparative níos bodhaire
Superlative is bodhaire

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms
  • bodhaire f (“deafness; dullness (of sound)”)

Noun

bodhar m (genitive singular bodhair, nominative plural bodhair)

  1. deaf person

Declension
Declension of bodhar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bodhar bodhair
Vocative a bhodhair a bhodhara
Genitive bodhair bodhar
Dative bodhar bodhair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bodhar na bodhair
Genitive an bhodhair na mbodhar
Dative leis an mbodhar

don bhodhar

 leis na bodhair

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bodar, from Proto-Celtic *bodaros, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰodʰHrós. Cognate with Kamkata-viri bera (“dumb”), Sanskrit बधिर (badhirá).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpo.əɾ/

Adjective

bodhar (comparative buidhre)

  1. deaf, hard of hearing
    cho bodhar ri gobhar as t-fhoghar ― deaf as a doorpost (literally, “as deaf as a goat in autumn”)
  2. dull, heavy

Noun

bodhar m (genitive singular bodhair, plural bodhair)

  1. deaf person

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

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “bodhar”, 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), “bodar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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