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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
orgánach
orgánachas
orgánaí
orgánaid
orgánta
órghréas
orla
orlach
orlaí
órlaicear
orlaigh
orlaíocht
orláiste
órlitreacha
órloiscthe
órlomrach
orlú
orm
ornáid
ornáideach
ornáideachas
ornáidigh
ornaigh
orlach, m. (gs. -aigh, pl. -aí1). 1. Inch. Rud a thomhas ina orlaí, to measure sth. in inches. Chuardaigh siad ina orlaí é, they searched it inch by inch. Shiúil mé ina orlaí beaga é, I went over every inch of it. Dá mbeadh ~ den fhear ann, if he had any manliness in him. Ní fearr Éire ná ~, an inch is as good as a mile. Gan ~ a ghéilleadh, not to yield an inch. S.a. coinneal 1. 2. Bit, fragment. Tá sé ina orlaí tríd, it is interspersed with it. Níl tusa ~ níos fearr ná é, you are not one bit better than he is. Tá seisean gach aon, gach uile, ~ chomh dona leo, he is every bit as bad as them.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá orlach aige orm, he is an inch taller than I am.
Tá orlach de ~ fós, there is an inch of it still sticking out.
Tá orlach, bliain, agat orm, you are an inch taller, a year older, than I am.
Bíodh an t-orlach, an t-unsa, mar bhuntomhas againn, let us take the inch, the ounce, as the measure.
~ fear, bean, bliain, orlach, fifty men, women, years, inches.
Tomhas, orlach, míle, ~, square measure, inch, mile.
~ orlaigh, míle, acra, quarter of an inch, of a mile, of an acre.
Ó loisc tú an choinneal loisc an t-orlach, as you have gone so far with it finish it.
Chuir mé orlach leis, I added an inch to it.
Ach orlach dá dhíth, short of an inch.
Orlach, míle, ar ~, an inch, a mile, deep.
~ orlach de, within an inch of.
Ní ghéillfeadh sé orlach, he wouldn’t budge an inch.
Níl ~ ná orlach acu ar a chéile, they are exactly the same height.
Ní raibh ~ ná orlach eatarthu, there was nothing, no difference, whatever between them.
Lig sí orlach leis, she let it out an inch.
Ná ~ orlach eile iad, don’t let them advance another inch.
Dá mbeadh orlach de ~, ~ orlaigh, aige, if it had an inch of play.
Ní mhaithfinn puinn (ás, bonn, orlach) dó, I would let nothing go with him; I wouldn’t yield an inch to him.
~ orlaí, inch-tape.
Léarscáil ar ~ orlaigh sa mhíle, map on scale of an inch to a mile.
Ní bhíonn an ~ gan an donas ina orlaí tríd, there is no rose without thorns.
~ orlaigh, one-inch space.
Chuaigh mé faoi orlach dá mharc sa léim fhada, I went within an inch of his mark in the long jump.
Tá ~ orlaigh agat orm, you are about an inch taller than me.
