suarach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠuˑəɾˠəx/

Adjective

suarach (genitive singular masculine suaraigh, genitive singular feminine suaraí, plural suaracha, comparative suaraí)

  1. paltry, petty, insignificant; mean, contemptible
  2. airy, frivolous

Declension
Declension of suarach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative suarach shuarach suaracha;
shuaracha²
Vocative shuaraigh suaracha
Genitive suaraí suaracha suarach
Dative suarach;
shuarach¹		 shuarach;
shuaraigh (archaic)		 suaracha;
shuaracha²
Comparative níos suaraí
Superlative is suaraí

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

Derived terms
  • páipéar suarach m (“rag”)
  • suarachán m (“petty, insignificant, person; mean, contemptible, person”)
  • suarachas m (“pettiness, paltriness, insignificance; meanness, sordidness”)
  • suaraigh (“demean”, transitive verb)
  • suaraíocht f (“meanness, insignificance”)

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.

Adjective

suarach (comparative suaraiche)

  1. abject, base
  2. contemptible, degenerate, despised, mean, vile, petty
    Tha mi ga cur suarach. ― I despise her.
  3. indifferent
  4. ignoble inferior, negligible, shoddy, trashy, tawdry
  5. silly, trivial, unimportant, valueless

Derived terms

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

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “súarrach, súairrech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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