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diabhal

diabhal

Irish

Alternative forms

  • deabhal (Connacht)

Noun

diabhal m (genitive singular diabhail, nominative plural diabhail)

  1. devil

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • diabhlaíocht f (devilry; wizardry, witchcraft; devilment, mischievousness; cursing)

Determiner

diabhal

  1. (colloquial) no, not a (emphatic)
    diabhal focal ― not a single word
    diabhal duine ― no one at all

Synonyms

  • don deabhal (Connacht)
  • don diabhal

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
diabhal dhiabhal ndiabhal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish díabul, from Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, slanderer).

Noun

diabhal m (genitive singular diabhail, plural diabhlan or diabhail)

  1. devil

Derived terms

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
  • 2 díabul” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.