buair

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish búaidrid (disturbs, troubles, harasses, confuses, verb), from búaidre f (confusion, distraction, disturbance).

Verb

buair (present analytic buaireann, future analytic buairfidh, verbal noun buaireamh, past participle buartha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) grieve; vex, perturb
Conjugation
Alternative forms

Noun

buair m

  1. genitive singular of buar

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buair bhuair mbuair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish búaidrid (disturbs, troubles, harasses, confuses, verb), from búaidre f (confusion, distraction, disturbance).

Verb

buair (past bhuair, future buairidh, verbal noun buaireadh, past participle buairte)

  1. disturb, trouble, upset
  2. tempt

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “buair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “búaidrid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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