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Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
Ó Dónaill, 1977
An Foclóir Beag
Ó Dónaill & Ua Maoileoin, 1991
English–Irish Dictionary
de Bhaldraithe, 1959
Grammar
Pronunciation
drochoineach
drochphláinéad
drochráiteach
drochrath
drochribe
drochríd
drochruaig
drochrud
drochrún
drochruthag
drochruthagach
drochscéal
drochscéala
drochscéalaí
drochscéimh
drochshá
drochshampla
drochshaol
drochsheans
drochsheasamh
drochsheoladh
drochshláinteach
drochshúil
drochrud, m. (gs. ~a, pl. ~aí). 1. Bad thing. (a) Inferior thing. ~ a cheannach, to buy a bad article. (b) Injurious thing. ~ stocaí fliucha a bheith ort, it is bad to wear wet stockings. (c) Evil thing; evil. An ~ a dhéanamh, a sheachaint, to do, to avoid, evil. Tá ciall don ~ acu, they know how to do wrong. 2. Bad, evil, person; devil. An ~, diúltaímid dó, the Devil, far be he from us. Is é an ~ é, he is a wicked character. Tá an ~ (ina sheasamh) istigh ann, he has a wicked nature; he is full of devilment. Is doiligh ~ a mharú, ‘it is hard to kill a bad thing’.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Ceannaigh an drochrud ~ bí gan aon rud, if you buy a poor thing you will be left without anything.
Bhris an drochrud amach ann, the evil inclination showed itself in him.
Aithint idir an ~ agus an drochrud, to distinguish between what is good and what is bad.
