Irish–English dictionary

cnoc oighir

A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

cnocach

(of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills.

cnocán

A small hill.

cnocánach

Not level or smooth

cnoga

A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.

cnota

A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.

cnota mullaigh

A decorative headdress.

cnotach

Full of knots; knotty.

cnuasach

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

cnuasaigh

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

cóála

A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

cóbalt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

Cóbanhávan

The capital city of Denmark.

cobhthach

(finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.

cobra

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.

cóc

(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

cóca

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

cócaire

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

cócaireacht

(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.

cócaireán

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.

cocán

A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

cocán dearg

Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

cocán gruaige

A decorative knot of hair on the crown of the head, sometimes having ribbons or feathers.

cocánach

Full of knots; knotty.

cócaon

(uncountable, organic compound, pharmaceutical drug) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.

cócaráil

(ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

cocatú

A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot. [from 1610s]

cochall

A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

cochallach

Displaying or feeling anger.

cochán

(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

cocún

The silky case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, protecting the pupa within.

cocús

A small building where cooking takes place.

cód teaglama

A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.

codhlatacháin

One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.

codhlatachán

One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.

codhlatachánach

One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.

codhlatachánacha

One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.

codladh

In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.

códmhalartú

(linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.

cófra

A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

cogain

To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.

cógaisíocht

(uncountable) The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.

cógaisíochta

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

cogal

Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).

cogar

The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially without vibration of the vocal cords.

cogarnach

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

cógas

(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.

cógaseolaíoch

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

cogúil

Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

coibhche

Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.

coibhín

A formal group or assembly of witches.

coibhín fia-chailleach

A formal group or assembly of witches.

coicís

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _, in North America) A period of 2 weeks.

coicíseán

A publication issued fortnightly (once every two weeks).

coicísiúil

Occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks.

coigistigh

(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

coileach

(North America, Kent, Australia, NZ) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

coileach ceannann

Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.

coileach fraoigh

(countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. [from 1530s]

coileáinín

A dog with a youthful appearance, or any dog.

coileán

(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

coiléar

(nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

coiléar giordáin

(nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

coiliceam

(pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).

coilíneachas

The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.

coill

(transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.

coillteach

Wooded, or covered in forest.

coillteán

A castrated human male.

coilltigh

(transitive) To make into forest

cóiméad

A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.

coimeádach

Tending to resist change or innovation.

coimeádachas

A political philosophy that advocates traditional values.

coimeádaí

(especially, US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).

coimeádán

An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

coimhdeacht

The state of having or being a companion.

coimheascar

The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

coimhirseach

Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

coimhlint

(military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.

coimhthíoch

Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

coimhthíos

The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.

coimín

A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

coimirce

The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.

coimirceoir

Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.

coimircí

A person under guardianship.

coimpeart

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.

coimre

(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness.

coimriú

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

coinbhleacht

A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.

coincheap

Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

coincheapaigh

To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.

coincleach

(plant disease) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

coincréit

(countable, uncountable) A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

coincréiteach

(not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).

coincréitigh

(usually, transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

cóineartú

A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.

coineascar

The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

coinfeasóir

One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.

coinicéar

A system of burrows in which rabbits live.

coinín baineann

A female rabbit.

coinne

(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.

coinneáil

(uncountable) The act of detaining or the state of being detained.

coinneal

A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

coinneálach

Providing support.

coinneálacht

(urology) The voluntary control of urination and defecation.

coinnealbhá

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

coinnigh

(transitive, law enforcement) To put under custody.

coinnle corra

Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.

coinnle corra Spáinneacha

Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.

coinnleoir

(informal) A tall, thin person.

coinnleoir craobhach

A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.

coinsias

(chiefly, fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

cóip

(liturgy) A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.

cóip bhradach

An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.

cóip mhídhleathach

An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.

cóipcheart

(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.

coipeadh

(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide

coipeadh cúir

(figuratively) A frothy foam.

coir

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

coirce

(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

coirceog

(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

coirceog bheach

Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

coirceog giúise

A seed-bearing conical fruit of a pine tree.

coirceog pháipéir

A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.

coirceogach

Shaped like a cone.

Coirdíneach

A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.

Coirdis

Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).

Coirdise

Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

Cóiré

A geographic region consisting of two countries in East Asia, commonly known as South Korea and North Korea; formerly a single country.

Cóiréach

Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.

coireacht

The state of being guilty; guilt.

cóiréagrafaíocht

The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.

cóireáil

(transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. [from 18th c.]

Cóiréis

Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.

coirigh

(transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]

coiriúlacht

The state of being guilty; guilt.

coirloisceoir

One who has committed the act of arson, or illegally setting fire to property.

coirloscadh

The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.

coirne

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.

coirneach

A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).

coirnéad

A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

coirnín

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

coirníneach

Having curls.

Coirnis

The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.

Coirnise

Of or pertaining to the Cornish language.

coirpe

(archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

coirpeach

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

coirpín

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

coirt

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

coirtéis

(countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.

coirtithe

Having a relatively dark skin.