Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
Ó Dónaill, 1977
An Foclóir Beag
Ó Dónaill & Ua Maoileoin, 1991
English–Irish Dictionary
de Bhaldraithe, 1959
Grammar
Pronunciation
bristeacht
bristechroíoch
bristeoir
bristí
brístín
bríthin
briúlán
bró
brobh
brobhaíl
brobhais
broc
broc-
brocach
brocachán
brocadh
brócaeir
brocailí
brocaire
brocaireacht
brocais
brocamas
bróch
bró, f. (gs. ~, pl. ~nna). 1. Quern; millstone. Cloch bhró; ~ mhuilinn, millstone. ~ uachtair, íochtair, upper, lower, millstone. Beidh sé ina bhró mhuilinn anuas ort, it will be a millstone round your neck. S.a. bia1 1, breac3 4, snámh1 2(a). 2. Dense mass. ~ daoine, press of people, throng. ~ iarainn, mass of iron. ~ éisc, dense shoal of fish. ~ feamainne, mass of (floating) seaweed. ~ fola, mass of (clotted) blood. Tá sé ina bhró, he is stuffed (with food). 3. Stout heavily-built person.
RELATED MATCHES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ na bró, first handful of ground grain (discarded).
Níl ~ na bró aige, he is destitute.
Bró a bhreacadh, to pick a quern.
An té a bhfuil an t-arbhar aige ~adh sé bró, whoever has grain let him pick a quern.
~ bró, tooling, picking, of quern.
~ bhró, mhuilinn, millstone.
Cuir ~ cruithneachta sa bhró, put a handful of wheat into the quern.
An bhró, an chloch, íochtair, the nether millstone.
~ (bró), peg (of quern).
1. ~ (bró), shaft (of millstone), mill-spindle.
~ na cloiche bró atá agam, I swim like a (mill)stone.
~ bró, pivot of millstone.
