bardal

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

bardal m (genitive singular bardail, nominative plural bardail)

  1. drake (male duck)

Declension

Declension of bardal (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bardal bardail
vocative a bhardail a bhardala
genitive bardail bardal
dative bardal bardail
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bardal na bardail
genitive an bhardail na mbardal
dative leis an mbardal
don bhardal
leis na bardail

Mutation

Mutated forms of bardal
radical lenition eclipsis
bardal bhardal mbardal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baɾˈdal/ [baɾˈð̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: bar‧dal

Noun

bardal m (plural bardales)

  1. a kind of wall
    • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
      En distantes bardales reposaba la celeste curva del cielo, y sólo entristecía la calleja el monótono rumor de una sierra sinfín o el mugido de las vacas en el tambo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. barbed wire fence

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