sgrath
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Cognate with Irish scrath; see Old Irish scaraid (“to tear apart”).
Noun
sgrath f (genitive singular sgratha, plural sgrathan)
- outer skin or rind of anything, husk, peel, crust
- bark (of a tree)
- layer of an onion
- turf, green sod, divot, as used for covering roofs of houses
- horror, dread
- rust
- scale (balance)
- rough handling
- long rhyme
- pull, tug
- what covers the kiln of grain
- greensward
Derived terms
- sgrathail
Noun
sgrath m
- (anatomy) cortex
Verb
sgrath (past sgrath, future sgrathaidh, verbal noun sgrathadh, past participle sgrathte)
- peel, skin, exfoliate
- pare, excoriate
- tug, pull or handle roughly
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “sgrath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page sgrath