salachar

Irish

Etymology

Compare salach (“dirty”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsˠalˠəxəɾˠ/

Noun

salachar m (genitive singular salachair)

dirt
Synonym: brocamas
ordure
sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness
dross
weed infestation
spattering, sprinkling
drizzle

Declension

Declension of salachar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	salachar
Vocative	a shalachair
Genitive	salachair
Dative	salachar

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an salachar
Genitive	an tsalachair
Dative	leis an salachar don salachar

Derived terms

buacaire salachair (“mud-cock”)
coirt salachair (“coat of dirt”)
salacharaíl (“smattering; drizzling”)
salachar airgid (“silver dross”)
salachar báistí (“drizzling rain”)
salachar béil (“thrush; orf”)
salachar cainte (“smutty talk”)
salachar ceo (“drizzling mist”)
salachar craicinn (“skin eruption”)
salachar duine (“human ordure”)
salachar éan (“bird-droppings”)
salachar gaoil (“distant relationship”)
salachar rásúir (“barber's itch”)
salachar umha (“verdigris”)
smál salachair (“dirt-stain”)
spota salachair (“speck of dirt”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
salachar	shalachar after an, tsalachar	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"salachar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Entries containing “salachar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “salachar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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