buí

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish buide.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bˠiː/

Adjective

buí (comparative buí or buíocha)

  1. yellow (having yellow as its colour)
  2. (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced
    Proverb:
    Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.
    Beauty is only skin deep.
    (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)
  3. tan

Declension
Declension of buí
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative buí bhuí buí;
bhuí²
Vocative bhuí buí
Genitive buí buí buí
Dative buí;
bhuí¹		 bhuí buí;
bhuí²
Comparative níos buí
Superlative is buí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms
  • arán buí (“cornbread”)
  • barrbhuí (“yellow-topped; blonde”)
  • buíbhallach (“spotted with yellow”)
  • buíbhán (“light yellow; cream-coloured”)
  • buíbhreac (“speckled with yellow”)
  • buídhearg (“yellowish-red”)
  • buídhonn (“fawn-coloured”)
  • buígh (“yellow, tan”, verb)
  • buí le grian, ón ngrian (“tanned by the sun”)
  • buíocht (“yellowness; sallowness”)
  • buí sa chraiceann (“sallow-skinned, of sallow complexion”)
  • ceannbhuí (“yellow-headed, yellow-haired”)
  • cróchbhuí (“saffron yellow”)
  • donnbhuí (“yellowish brown; fallow, biscuit(-coloured)”)
  • dúbhuí (“dark yellow”)
  • Fear Buí (“Orangeman”)
  • flannbhuí (“orange”)
  • geansaí buí m (“yellow jersey”)
  • gine buí (“yellow, golden, guinea”)
  • grán buí (“maize”)
  • iasc buí (“dried fish”)
  • leathbhuí, scothbhuí (“yellowish”)
  • órbhuí (“golden-coloured”)
  • ór buí (“yellow gold”)
  • osbhuí (“fawn”, adjective)
  • solas buí gréine (“golden sunlight”)
  • buíliath

Noun

buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

  1. yellow (colour)
    1. yellow blight
    2. yellow plague

Declension
Declension of buí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative buí buíonna
Vocative a bhuí a bhuíonna
Genitive buí buíonna
Dative buí buíonna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an buí na buíonna
Genitive an bhuí na mbuíonna
Dative leis an mbuí

don bhuí

 leis na buíonna

Derived terms
  • buí cumhra (“mignonette”)
  • buí mór (“dyer's rocket”)
  • buí na n-iníon, na mbáb (“spurge”)
  • osbhuí (“fawn”)

Proper noun

buí f (genitive buí)

  1. (name for) a yellow cow

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buí bhuí mbuí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "buí" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 buide” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “buí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “buí” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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