saothar

Irish

Etymology

Noun

saothar m (genitive singular saothair, nominative plural saothair)

  1. labour (work); toil, exertion; stress, effort
    gan saothar ― without effort
  2. work (product of labour)
    1. thing done, achievement
    2. works; literary or artistic composition
  3. (music) opus
  4. (music, literature) composition, piece
  5. job of destruction
  6. (literary) travail, pangs of childbirth
  7. evacuation of bowels; excrement
  8. (as verbal noun, ag ~) labouring, toiling

Declension
Declension of saothar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative saothar saothair
Vocative a shaothair a shaothara
Genitive saothair saothar
Dative saothar saothair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an saothar na saothair
Genitive an tsaothair na saothar
Dative leis an saothar

don saothar

 leis na saothair

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • ardsaothar (“magnum opus”)
  • bileog shaothair f (“worksheet”)
  • saothar allamuigh (“field-work”)
  • saothar anála (“panting, laboured breathing”)
  • saothar an bháis (“death-throes”)
  • saothar an lae (“the daily grind”)
  • saothar bradáin (“process of spawning of salmon”)
  • saothar coimisiúnaithe (“commission”) (commissioned work)
  • saothar coirp (“manpower”) (physical effort)
  • saothar díreach (“direct labour”) (workers concerned with production)
  • saothar ealaíne (“art, artwork, work of art”)
  • saothar ficsin (“work of fiction”)
  • saothar foirne (“team effort”)
  • saothar in aisce (“lost cause, labour in vain”)
  • saothar indíreach (“indirect labour”)
  • saothar láimhe (“handicraft”)
  • saotharlann f (“laboratory”)
  • saothar múrealaíne (“wall painting”)
  • saothar seanré (“period piece”)
  • saothar taifeadta (“discography”) (all someone's recordings)
  • saothar teibí (“abstract, abstraction”, noun) (artwork)
  • saothrach (“laborious, toilsome; laboured; hard-working, industrious”, adjective)
  • saothraí m (“labourer, toiler; earner, bread-winner”)
  • saothraigh (“labour, toil; work, till, cultivate”, verb)
  • saothrán m (“culture”) (of product)
  • scoil saothair f (“industrial school”)

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

Further reading
  • "saothar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “effort” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “exertion” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “labour” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “opus” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “piece” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “toil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “work” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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