ablach

Perhaps from or related to Middle Irish apach (“corpse, remains, entrails”) (see abach).

ablach m (genitive singular ablaigh, nominative plural ablaigh)

1. carcass; carrion
2. hulk (of person)

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ablach (genitive singular masculine ablaigh, genitive singular feminine ablaí, plural ablacha, comparative ablaí)

1. fat, soft

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ablach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ablach (‘carcass, carrion’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “ablach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “ablach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• abloch, ablack, ablich, aiblich

Akin to Old Irish ablach (“carcass, corpse, carrion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑbləx/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈɑblɪç/
• (Mid Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈeblɪç/

ablach (plural ablachs)

1. A mangled carcass or dead body.
2. A body not necessarily dead but maimed or reduced to a pitiable condition.
3. An insignificant or contemptible person through lack of size or defect of will or intellect.
4. An untidy or clumsy person.
5. (humorous) child
6. An object defective through lack of size.

• “ablach, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.