gabhar

From Old Irish gabor (“goat, horse”),^[1][2] from Proto-Celtic *gabros (“he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“male hooved animal”). Cognate with Latin caper (“goat”) and Ancient Greek κάπρος (kápros, “wild boar”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡɑuɾˠ/^[3]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑuəɾˠ/^[4]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡoːɾˠ/

gabhar m (genitive singular gabhair, nominative plural gabhair)

1. goat

   Cuir (culaith) s(h)íoda, ar ghabhar agus is gabhar i gcónaí é. (proverb)

   You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

   (literally, “Put silk (clothes) on a goat, and it's still a goat.”)

   Mura mbeadh agat ach gabhar bí i lár an aonaigh leis. (proverb)

   Don't hide your light under a bushel.

   (literally, “If all you have is a goat, be in the middle of the fair with it.”)

   Is doiligh olann a bhaint de ghabhar. (proverb)

   One can't get blood out of a stone.

   (literally, “It's difficult to get wool from a goat.”)

2. scad, horse-mackerel

   Synonyms: bolmán, bolmán Atlantach

gabhar f or m (genitive singular gabhra, nominative plural gabhra)

1. (literary) (white) horse

Alternative declension

• gabhra lir (“white-crested waves”)
• gabhra réin (“white-crested waves”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gabhar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gabhar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024