pùball
See also: puball
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish pupall (“tent, pavilion; awning or baldaquin over a chariot”).
Noun
pùball m (genitive singular pùbaill, plural pùballan)
- tent, pavilion, booth, marquee
- Shuidhich iad am pùbaill.
- They pitched their tents.
- alcove
- covering
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “pùball”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pupall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language