Irish–English dictionary

Fionlannach

A national of Finland.

fionn

Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.

Fionnabhair

A en given name.

fionnachtain

Something discovered.

fionnadh

(uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.

fionnrua

(of a person) Having red hair.

fionnuar

Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

fionnuisce

Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.

fionraí

Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. [Mid 17th century]

fiontraí

A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. [from 1762]

fíor

A shape.

fíor-veigeatóir

A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.

fíorasc

(law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

fíorchoisricthe

(figurative) Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.

fíordheimhneacht

The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original, of having the same origin (or attribution, commitment, intention, etc.) as claimed.

fíordheimhniú dhá fhachtóir

(computer security) An identity and access management security method in which users provide two different authentication factors to verify themselves: first the user's password and then a (randomly generated and frequently changing) code generated by an app.

fíorghreannmhar

Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.

fíormhaith

Extremely good; excellent, amazing. [from 19th c.]

fios

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]

fioscaireacht

The act of circumventing security with an alias.

fiosrach

Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

fiosraigh

(transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

fiosrúchán

The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

fiostúl

(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.

firéad

An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.

fireann

Manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.

fireannach

Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]

fireannacht

The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.

fíréantacht

(uncountable) The quality or state of being righteous.

firinscneach

(of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.

físcheamara

(computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.

físeán

Television, a television show, or a movie.

fiseolaíocht

A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.

fisic

The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.

fisiceach

Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]

fisiceoir

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

fisicí

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

fisiciúil

Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]

fisiteiripe

(British, Commonwealth, Irish) Therapy that uses physical techniques such as massage, ultrasound, heat, and exercise.

fístéip

A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.

fite

Fabricated by weaving.

fithiseán

(physics) A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function.

fithisigh

(astronomy, transitive) To circle or revolve around another object or position.

Fítneamach

Of or pertaining to Vietnam.

fiú

In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.

fiúntas

(uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.

fiús

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

flainín

(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

flaith

The (male) ruler or head of a principality. [from 14th c.]

flaitheas

(archaic, or, legal, &, rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. [from ca. 1300]

flaithiúil

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

flaithiúlach

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

flaithiúlacht

(uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time.

flaithiúnas

(by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.

flann

Covered in blood.

flannbhuí

Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

flapóg

(British) A bar made with rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.

fleá

A large celebratory meal; a feast.

fleasc

A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.

fleascach

(countable) A young person.

fleiscín

The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.

flichshneachta

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Northeast US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

flip fleap

(usually, in the plural, Australia) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.

fliuch

Pouring with rain; wet; showery

fliuch go craiceann

Completely wet; sodden

fliuchán

The condition of being wet.

fliúit

(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

fliúiteog

A piccolo flute A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

flóirín

A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.

flosc fola

(pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

floscaí

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

flóta

An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.

flúirse

An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

fo-abhainn

(hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.

fo-adamhach

(physics) Relating to particles that are constituents of the atom, or are smaller than an atom; such as proton, neutron, electron, etc.

fo-bhaile

A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.

fo-bhailteach

Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

fo-bhrat

A coat of paint or other material applied onto a surface before that of a topcoat; sometimes, a coloured primer.

fo-charbad

The supporting structural framework of a vehicle.

fo-chlabhach

(anatomy) Relating to or denoting an artery or vein which serves the neck and arm on the left or right side of the body.

fo-chomhfhios

The state of being subconscious.

fo-chomhfhiosach

(psychology) Without directed thought or awareness.

fo-chraicneach

Pertaining to the fatty layer under the skin.

fo-éadaí

Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.

fo-fhadhb

(shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame. [from 17th c.]

fo-ghlac

(transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.

fo-ghúna

A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.

fo-ordaithe

(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause

fo-ríomhchlár

(computing) A program contained within a larger program

fo-rúnaí

An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet

fo-thacar

(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.

fo-thairseachúil

(physiology) Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally) , below the threshold where a response can be produced. [from late 19th c.]

fo-uair

On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes. [from 15th c.]

fo-uirbeach

Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

fobhán

Somewhat white, pale or almost white.

fobhríste

Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.

focal ar fhocal

Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.

focal iasachta

A word directly taken into one language from another one.

focalbhá

(typography, mathematics) A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.

focalbháiteach

Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.

fócas

(uncountable) Concentration of attention.

fócasach

(medicine) Limited to a small area.

fochaidh

Any adversity; a trying period or event.

fochaighdeánach

Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.

focharráiste

The supporting structural framework of a vehicle.

focheannasach

(music) The fourth tone of a scale.

fochéimí

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

fochiall

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

fochlac

(dated, _, except in, _, UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.

fochoiste

A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.

fochomhlacht

A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

fochonradh

(ambitransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.

fochupán

A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.

foclach

(of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

foclachas

Overabundance of words.

foclaíocht

Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

focleolaí

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

focleolaíocht

(philosophy, rare) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

foclóir

A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information. [ca. 1480]

foclóireolaíocht

(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.

foclóirín

A list of difficult words or specialized terms used in a particular book or document, or in a particular domain of knowledge, with their definitions; a list of glosses (explanatory annotations).

fód catha

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

fódbhán

(of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

fodhearg

Having a wavelength in the infrared spectrum.

fodheirmeach

Of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis.

Fódhla

A large island in northwestern Europe.

foghar

(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

foghlaeir

A hunter of wildfowl.

foghlaí

One who plunders or pillages.

foghlaí mara

(crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

foghlaim

To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

fógra

(countable) A written or printed announcement.

fógra meirge

An advertisement that stretches across (most often the top of) a web site.

fógra meirge ar líne

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.

fógraí

The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).

fógraí pósta

The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).

fógraíocht

The industry or profession made up of such communications.

fóibe

An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).

foiche

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

foighe

Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.

foighne

The quality of being patient.

foilmhe

(philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

foilseachán

An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.

foilsigh

(transitive) To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.

foilsitheoireacht

The act of publishing printed or other matter.

foilsiú

The act of publishing printed or other matter.

foinse

The beginning of something.

foinse oscailte

(software) The practice of providing open-source code for a product.

foirbeach

Full of knots; knotty.

foirceadail

Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.