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cailleach-dhubh

cailleach-dhubh

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cailleach dhubh f (genitive singular cailliche-duibhe, plural cailleachan-dubha)

  1. nun
  2. European shag, common shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9