preabán

See also: preaban

Irish

From preab +‎ -án.

preabán m (genitive singular preabáin, nominative plural preabáin)

patch (piece of cloth used to repair a garment; small piece of anything used to repair a breach)
Synonym: paiste
(chiefly in the plural) rag (mean or tattered attire)
Synonyms: giobal, cifleog
a small piece of something

Declension of preabán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an preabán	na preabáin
Genitive	an phreabáin	na bpreabán
Dative	leis an bpreabán don phreabán	leis na preabáin

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
preabán	phreabán	bpreabán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 100

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “prebán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “preabán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 551
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “preabán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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