bardal
Irish
Etymology
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Noun
bardal m (genitive singular bardail, nominative plural bardail)
- drake (male duck)
Declension
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Mutation
| 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.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bardal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bardal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “bardal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baɾˈdal/ [baɾˈð̞al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: bar‧dal
Noun
bardal m (plural bardales)
- 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)
- barbed wire fence
Further reading
- “bardal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024