sparán

• sbarán, sporán

From Middle Irish sparán (compare Scottish Gaelic sporan), possibly from Late Latin bursa (“purse”), ultimately from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “leather, hide”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠpˠəˈɾˠɑːnˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠpˠaɾˠɑːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠpˠaɾˠanˠ/; /ˈsˠpˠɔɾˠanˠ/ (corresponding to the alternative form sporán)^[1]

sparán m (genitive singular sparáin, nominative plural sparáin)

1. purse

   Synonym: mála

2. sporran
3. (animals) stomach

• “sparán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sparán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sparán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sparán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “sparán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 38