galar

Irish

Alternative forms

galra

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡal̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

galar m (genitive singular galair, nominative plural galair)

(pathology) sickness, illness, disease, infection
Proverb:
Dhá dtrian galair le hoíche. ― The risk of illness is greatest at night; sickness is most intense at night.

Synonym: othras
affliction, misery

Declension

Declension of galar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	galar	galair
Vocative	a ghalair	a ghalara
Genitive	galair	galar
Dative	galar	galair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an galar	na galair
Genitive	an ghalair	na ngalar
Dative	leis an ngalar don ghalar	leis na galair

Derived terms

galar béil (“thrush”)
galar breac (na spéire) (“smallpox”)
galar buí (“jaundice”)
galar cam, casta (“staggers (in sheep)”)
galar carrach (“scurvy”)
galar cleiteach (“moulting”)
galar creathach (“ague”)
galar crúibe is béil (“foot-and-mouth disease”)
galar crupáin, crupánach (“aphosphorosis”)
galar dubhach, dúchroíoch (“melancholy; melancholia”)
galareagla f (“hypochondria”)
galar easpa (“deficiency disease”)
galareolaí m (“pathologist”)
galareolaíoch (“pathological”, adjective)
galareolaíocht f (“pathology”)
galar garbh (“botts”)
galar gasta (“flux”)
galarghinteach (“morbific”, adjective)
galar gnéas-tarchurtha (“sexually transmitted disease”)
galar na gcás (“perplexity”)
galar scrathach (“scab (in sheep)”)
galar támhach (“catalepsy”)
galar titimeach, Póil (“falling-sickness, epilepsy”)
galar trua (“pine disease (in cattle, sheep)”)
galar véinéireach (“venereal disease”)
galrach (“diseased, infected; sickly, morbid”, adjective)
galracht f (“sickliness, morbidity”)
galraigh (“infect, inoculate; become diseased, sicken”)

Related terms

galareaglach (“hypochondriac”, adjective)
galrachán m (“sickly creature or thing”)
galrú m (“infection; inoculation”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
galar	ghalar	ngalar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"galar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Entries containing “galar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “galar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Noun

galar m (genitive singular galair, plural galaran)

disease, sickness, ailment, disorder
Synonyms: euslaint, tinneas, trioblaid

Derived terms

galar-ceàirde (“occupational disease”)
galar-fuail (“diabetes”)
galar-pearraide (“parrot fever, psittacosis”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
galar	ghalar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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