Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish orbbae.
Noun
forba m (genitive singular forba, nominative plural forbacha)
- (literary) landed estate, patrimony
- glebe
Declension
Declension of forba (fourth declension)
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Etymology 2
From Old Irish forbae (“cutting”).
Noun
forba m (genitive singular forba)
- a cutting, gash
Declension
Declension of forba (fourth declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
- forba a dhéanamh (“to tear into, to work wonders”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of forba
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lenition
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eclipsis
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fhorba
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bhforba
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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) “forba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “orb(b)a”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forbba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “forba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “forba”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025