bósan

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boatswain.

Noun

bósan m (genitive singular bósain, nominative plural bósain)

(nautical) boatswain

Declension

Declension of bósan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bósan	bósain
Vocative	a bhósain	a bhósana
Genitive	bósain	bósan
Dative	bósan	bósain

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bósan	na bósain
Genitive	an bhósain	na mbósan
Dative	leis an mbósan don bhósan	leis na bósain

Synonyms

maor loinge

Derived terms

feadóg bósain (“boatswain's pipe”)
máta bosáin (“boatswain's mate”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bósan	bhósan	mbósan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bósan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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