sealbhán

sealbhán

Irish

Etymology

Old Irish selbán, a diminutive of selb (“flock, herd”). Synchronically equivalent to seilbh +‎ -án.

Noun

sealbhán m (genitive singular sealbháin, nominative plural sealbháin)

1. flock, herd

   Sheol sé roimhe an sealbhán torc. ― He drove the herd of boars before him.

2. (of people) flock, herd, group

Declension

Declension of sealbhán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative sealbhán sealbháin Vocative a shealbháin a shealbhána Genitive sealbháin sealbhán Dative sealbhán sealbháin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an sealbhán na sealbháin Genitive an tsealbháin na sealbhán Dative leis an sealbhán don sealbhán leis na sealbháin

Further reading

• "sealbhán" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “selbán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language