ar aba

See also: araba, arába, arabá, àraba, arāba, arābā, and arabă

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish apa (“reason, cause”), verbal noun of *ad·ben.

Preposition

ar aba (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

(literary) on account of

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 apa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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