dubhachas

Irish

Alternative forms

• dubhacht

Etymology

From Old Irish dubachas (“gloom, heaviness, sorrow, sadness”). By surface analysis, dubhach +‎ -as.

Noun

dubhachas m (genitive singular dubhachais)

1. gloom, sorrow

   Synonyms: duairceas, gruaim

Declension

Declension of dubhachais

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative dubhachais Vocative a dh{{{3}}} Genitive d{{{3}}} Dative dubhachais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an dubhachais Genitive an d{{{3}}} Dative leis an dubhachais don dubhachais

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dubhachas	dhubhachas	ndubhachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dubhachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dubachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish dubachas. By surface analysis, dubhach +‎ -as.

Noun

dubhachas m (genitive dubhachais)

1. Depression, dreariness, melancholy, sadness

Mutation

Mutation of dubhachas

radical	lenition
dubhachas	dhubhachas

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