Irish–English dictionary

bithéagsúlacht

(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.

bitheolaí

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

bitheolaíoch

Of or relating to biology.

bitheolaíocht

The study of all life or living matter.

bitheolaíochta

Of or relating to biology.

bithghuais

A biological hazard; a source of risk due to some biological factor such as bacteria or human waste.

bithiúnach

Someone who cheats.

bithiúnta

Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.

bithmhéadrach

Of, relating to, or using biometrics.

bithmhéadracht

The automated measurement of biological data.

bithóipse

The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.

bithóm

Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.

bladair

(transitive) To flatter effusively.

bladar

The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.

bladhmaire

Someone who constantly brags or boasts. [from late 16th c.]

blag

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)

blaincéad

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

Blaise

A en given name.

blaiseadh

The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.

blaisféim

An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.

blaisféimeach

Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy.

blaisféimeoir

One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.

blaoisce

(anatomy) Of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull.

blaosc

(skeleton) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

blaosc an chinn

(skeleton) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

blaosc an chloiginn

(skeleton) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

blaosc cnó

The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.

blár catha

The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

Blarna

A town in County Cork, Ireland, location of Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone (Irish grid ref W 6175).

blas

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

blast

an immature cell or tissue

blasta

That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.

blastacht

(colloquial, figurative) Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

bláth

(botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

bláth na faochan

Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.

bláthach

The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.

bláthchuach

An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

bláthnaid

A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.

bláthnaid ghallda

The common weasel, little weasel, or simply weasel (Mustela nivalis), the smallest member of the weasel genus Mustela, native to Eurasia, North America, and North Africa.

bleacht

(dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring.

bleachtaire

(law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.

bleaist

A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).

bleán

The act by which any animal is milked.

bleib

The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

bléin

The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

bléinbheart

(sports) An athletic supporter worn by men and boys to support the genitals during strenuous exercise.

bliain airgeadais

(accounting) An accounting period of one year, not necessarily coinciding with the calendar year.

bliain fhioscach

(accounting) An accounting period of one year, not necessarily coinciding with the calendar year.

bliain mhaith i diaidh

Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.

blianacht

(insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.

bliantúil

Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.

bligh

(transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

bliosán

(countable) A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

bloc

A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

blocán

(colloquial) A stupid person.

blocánta

(of a person or an animal) Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.

blonag

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

blúire

A small amount of something.

bó mhara

Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of the genus Trichechus, found in tropical regions.

bó shamhraidh

Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.

Bob

A en given name.

bob a bhualadh ar

To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.

bobailín

A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

bobaire

One who plays tricks or pranks on others.

bobaireacht

(countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.

bobchat

A North American wildcat, Lynx rufus, having tufted ears and a short tail.

boc mór

(idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

bóchna

(countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

bocht

Of low quality.

bochtaineacht

The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

bocsa isteach

(computing) An electronic folder serving the same purpose, but for electronic files, especially email.

bocsaeir

A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.

bod

(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. [from 14th c.]

bod mór

Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.

Bodach

(constellation) A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.

bodairlín

The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.

bodhaire

The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear.

bodhar

Unable (or partially able) to hear.

bodharuisce

(nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.

bodhraigh

(transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.

bodóg

A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.

bodúil

Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.

bog

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

bogach

(wetland science, specifically) An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)

bógaí

(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.

bogán

(colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

bogearraí

(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).

bogha báistí

A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

bogmheisce

The property of being tipsy.

bogthaise

Dampness, especially that of the air.

bogthe

(temperature) Between warm and cool.

Boihéamach

Of, or relating to Bohemia or its language. [from 16th c.]

boilg

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral. [Mid 18th century.]

boilg fola

An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.

boilgeog

A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16thc.]

boilscithe

(economics) : In a state of higher cost.

boilsciú

(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.

Boilséiveach

(historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

Boilséiveachas

The Communist political ideology adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Marxism-Leninism.

boim

A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.

bóín Dé

Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.

bóín samhraidh

Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.

boirbe

The quality or state of being coarse

bóireach

Of, relating to, or coming from the north.

boireannach

Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.

boiric

A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.

Boirneo

A Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.

boiscín stáin

Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.

boiseog

A light tap or slap, especially with the hands.

Boisniach

Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.

Boisnis

(uncountable) The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

boiteallach

(countable) A young person.

bóitheach

(chiefly, British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.

bóithreoir

(colloquial) An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.

Bol

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling

boladh

A distinctive smell.

bolaigh

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

Bolaiv

A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.

Bolavach

Of, from, or pertaining to Bolivia, or the Bolivian people.

bolb

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

bolcán

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

bolg

(obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly. [mid 16th c. – late 17th c.]

bolg le gréin

The act of lying outdoors exposed to the sun, usually wearing little or no clothing, especially in order to get a tan.

bolgach

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral. [Mid 18th century.]

bolgach Dé

(disease) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

bolgach fhrancach

(disease) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

bolgam

The amount that will fit in a mouth.

bolgán

A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

bolgchaint

The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

bolla

(bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.

bollaire

Someone who constantly brags or boasts. [from late 16th c.]

bollán

A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.

bollóg

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

bológ

A castrated bull; an ox.

bolscaire

One who makes announcements.

bolscaireacht

(religion, historical) The propagation of the faith by the Catholic Church by means of missionary work etc.

bolscaireacht a dhéanamh

(transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.

bomaite

A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

bómán

(Ireland, Scotland, Mid-Ulster English, pejorative) An idiot; a fool; an imbecile.

bóna

The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.

Bonaventure

A surname transferred from the given name.

bongó

A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

bonn

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

bonn bán

A historical English coin representing such a unit: a silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.

bonnán

Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.

bonnán ceoil

A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.

bonnán d'amhrán

A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.

bonneagar

(systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system. [from 1887]

bonnóg

A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

Bórach

(historical) A Dutch colonist in South Africa during the colonial era, especially a farmer.