salachar

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish salchar. Compare salach (“dirty”).

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /sˠəˈl̪ˠɑxəɾˠ/
  • (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈsˠalˠəxəɾˠ/, /ˈsˠal̪ˠəxəɾˠ/

Noun

salachar m (genitive singular salachair)

  1. dirt
    Synonym: brocamas
  2. ordure
  3. sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness
  4. dross
  5. weed infestation
  6. spattering, sprinkling
  7. drizzle

Declension
Declension of salachar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative salachar
Vocative a shalachair
Genitive salachair
Dative salachar

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an salachar
Genitive an tsalachair
Dative leis an salachar

don salachar

Derived terms
  • buacaire salachair (“mud-cock”)
  • coirt salachair (“coat of dirt”)
  • salachar airgid (“silver dross”)
  • salachar báistí (“drizzling rain”)
  • salachar béil (“thrush; orf”)
  • salachar cainte (“smutty talk”)
  • salachar ceo (“drizzling mist”)
  • salachar craicinn (“skin eruption”)
  • salachar duine (“human ordure”)
  • salachar éan (“bird-droppings”)
  • salachar gaoil (“distant relationship”)
  • salachar rásúir (“barber's itch”)
  • salachar umha (“verdigris”)
  • salacharaíl (“smattering; drizzling”)
  • smál salachair (“dirt-stain”)
  • spota salachair (“speck of dirt”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
salachar shalachar
after an, tsalachar		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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