badhbha

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish badbda (“appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal”), from Old Irish bodbdae.

Adjective

badhbha

  1. martial, warlike
Declension
Declension of badhbha
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative badhbha bhadhbha badhbha;
bhadhbha²
Vocative bhadhbha badhbha
Genitive badhbha badhbha badhbha
Dative badhbha;
bhadhbha¹		 bhadhbha badhbha;
bhadhbha²
Comparative níos badhbha
Superlative is badhbha

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Further reading

Noun

badhbha f pl

  1. nominative/dative plural of badhbh (“hooded crow”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
badhbha bhadhbha mbadhbha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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