Irish–English dictionary

tionscal na scannán

(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

tionscnóir

Someone who originates, creates or founds something.

tionscra

(legal) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage

tiontú

(law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.

tíor

(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it

tíoránach

A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

tíoránta

Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.

tíorántacht

Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

tíoróideach

(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.

Tioróil

A geographic region in Central Europe including the state of Tyrol in Austria and the regions of South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy.

tíosach

Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household. [from 17th c.]

tíosaíocht

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.

tíotáiniam

A chemical element, atomic number 22; it is a strong, corrosion-resistant transition metal, used to make light alloys for aircraft etc.

Tíotán

(Greek god) Any of the race of giant gods in Greek mythology that preceded and was overthrown by the Olympian gods.

tír

The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc. [from 14th c.]

tír dhúchais

The country of one's ancestors.

tír mór

The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.

tírdhreach

A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.

tírdhreachtaigh

The pictorial aspect of a country.

tíreolaíoch

Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).

tíreolaíocht

The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.

tírghrá

Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.

tírghráthóir

A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.

tirim

Free from or lacking moisture.

tiripín

(countable) Any of several small turtles of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae found throughout the world.

tit chun feola

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

tit chun meáchain

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

Títeas

The seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus.

tithe

residences

tithíocht

residences

titim na hoíche

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

titimeach

Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).

titimeas

(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

titimis

Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).

tiúba

A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.

tiúbar

A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.

tiubh

Abundant in growth or detail.

tiubhaigh

To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.

tiubhaithe

Not dilute; having a high concentration.

tiúchán

A substance that is in a condensed form.

tiúin

A mental or emotional state, composure.

tiúnáil

To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.

Tliongáinis

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

tlú

An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.

tnúthánach

Marked by expectation.

tobacadóir

A person who sells tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, snuff and sundry items.

tobán

A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

tobán cuilithe

A hot tub or whirlpool bath with underwater jets that massage the body.

tobán folctha

A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath).

tobann

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

tobar

A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

tochail

(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

tochais

To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.

tochra

(legal) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage

tochtán

(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

tocsaineach

(toxicology, pharmaceutical drug) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.

tocsaineacht

The quality or degree of being toxic.

tocsaineolaíocht

(sciences, pharmacology) The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.

todhchaí

The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.

todhchaíoch

In the style of futurism.

todhchaíochaí

(arts) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

todhchaíochas

(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.

tofa

Especially good or preferred.

tófú

A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.

tóg

(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

Tóga

A country in West Africa. Official name: Togolese Republic.

tógálach

(pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).

togh

To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

toghadh

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

toghairm

A call to do something, especially to come.

toghchán

A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

toghchóras

The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage.

togra

A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

Tóibias

A en given name.

Tóiceo

A prefecture and capital city of Japan.

toiligh

(intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.

toilleoir

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.

toimhde

The act or an instance of supposing.

tóin

(usually, in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.

tointe

(colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or clothing.

toipeolaíocht

(mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing).

tóir

The act of pursuing.

toirceoil

(chiefly, British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.

toircheas

The period of time this condition prevails.

toirchigh

To inseminate.

toirchiú

The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.

Toirdhealbhach

A en given name.

toireasc

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

toirmeascach

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional. [from 16th c.]

toirmeascaí

(archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.

toirmiscithe

That inhibits.

toirmiscthe

Not allowed; specifically disallowed.

toirneach

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

tóirse

(Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source.

toirtéis

The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.

toirtís

Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly, North America) or the order Testudines (chiefly, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India) , whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

toisc

Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.

toisc go

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

toit

(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

toitcheo

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

toiteach

Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.

toiteachán

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.

toitín

A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

toitiúil

Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.

tolg

(North America, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

toll

(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

tollaire

A tool used for drilling.

tollán

An underground or underwater passage.

tolltach

Able to pierce or penetrate

tom

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

tom mónóg

(countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.

tom rothlaim

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.

Tomáisín

(uncommon, _, relative to the male given name) A en given name.

tomhais

To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

tomhas

The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]

ton

(language, dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

tóna

(not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

tónáisteach

Characteristic of a burden; arduous or demanding

tonn

A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.

tonnadóir

A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.

tonnchlár

A shaped waterproof plank, usually made of wood or foam and reinforced plastic, used to surf on waves.

tonnchosc

A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.

tonnfhad

(physics) The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency.

tonnleasaitheoir

A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

tonntaoscadh

The act of vomiting.

tonóg

An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.

topagrafaíocht

The features themselves; terrain.

tor

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

tor caprais

A plant of the genus Capparis.

tor sútha craobh

The plant Rubus idaeus.

tor tamaraine

(botany) A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.

tóracs

(anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.

tóracsach

(anatomy) Of the thorax.

toradh

That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

toradh leagtha

A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind.

torann

(uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.

torbán

A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

torc

(physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or N·m; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)

torc na bhfaithní

(zoology) A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.

torcán

Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.

tormán

A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

tormas

A state of sulking.

tornádó

(meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

tornapa

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

Torontó

The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.

torrach

(mostly, not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.

tórramh

A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.

torthúil

Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

tortóg

A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.

tosach

That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.