buar

See also: búar and büar

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish búar (“cattle, cows, kine”), from bó (“cow”).

Noun

buar m (genitive singular buair)

1. cattle, kine

Derived terms

• buarán (“dried cow dung”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish búar (“diarrhoea”).

Noun

buar m (genitive singular buair)

1. (veterinary medicine) scour

Declension

Declension of buar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative buar Vocative a bhuair Genitive buair Dative buar

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an buar Genitive an bhuair Dative leis an mbuar don bhuar

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buar	bhuar	mbuar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From bu +‎ -ar.

Noun

buar m (definite singular buaren, indefinite plural buarar, definite plural buarane)

1. (usually in compounds) a habitant

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms suffixed with -buar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

buar

1. present tense of bue

References

• “-bura” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• bura