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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
saitsil
sal
sál
sála
salach
salacha
salachadh
salachar
salacharaíl
salaicil
salaicileach
salaicin
salaicioláit
salaid
salaigh
salaitheoir
salamandar
salán
salanda
salandacht
salann
salannlus
salchadh
salachar, m. (gs. -air). 1. Dirt. ~ ar éadach, ar bhróga, dirt on clothes, on shoes. Ag siúl i ~, walking in mud, in filth. 2. Ordure. ~ éan, bird-droppings. ~ duine, human ordure. 3. Sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness. ~ an pheaca, the defilement of sin. ~ nach nífidh uisce, shame that water will not wash away. ~ cainte, smutty talk. Ag cur salachair ar dhaoine, slinging mud at people. Tá an ~ iontu, they are a foul lot. 4. (a) (Of physical disorders) ~ craicinn, skin eruption. ~ béil, (i) thrush, (ii) orf. ~ rásúir, barber’s itch. (b) ~ (bó), afterbirth (of cow). 5. Dross. ~ umha, verdigris. ~ airgid, silver dross. 6. Weed infestation. ~ i dtalamh, i mbarra, weedy growth in land, in crops. 7. Spattering, sprinkling. Cibé ~ bia a bhí ar an urlár, whatever spattering of food there was on the floor. ~ gaoil, distant relationship. 8. Drizzle. ~ ceo, báistí, drizzling mist, rain.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
An craiceann, an salachar, a chartadh de rud, to scrape the skin, the dirt, off sth.
~ salachair, coat of dirt.
Idir an ~ agus an salachar, between the clear ground and the weeds.
Salachar a ghlanadh de, as, rud, to clean dirt from, out of, sth.
Smál, salachar, a ~ean ar éadach, to let clothing become stained, soiled.
~ an salachar de, wash the dirt off it.
~ an salachar de, sweep the dirt off it.
~ salachair, dirt-stain.
~ salachair, speck of dirt.
Ná lig salachar ~d an arbhar, don’t let dirt get into the grain.
