Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
Ó Dónaill, 1977
An Foclóir Beag
Ó Dónaill & Ua Maoileoin, 1991
English–Irish Dictionary
de Bhaldraithe, 1959
Grammar
Pronunciation
glug
glugach
glugaí
glugar
glugarnach
gluigín
gluigín(t)eacht
glúin
glúinalt
glúineach
glúineachas
glúineacht
glúinfheacadh
glúiní
glúinigh
glúinín
glúiníneach
glúiniú
glúinmhear
glúinte
glúinteach
glúinteas
gluitéir
glúin, f. (gs. & npl. ~e, gpl. -ún). 1. Knee. (a)Dul ar do ghlúine, to go on one’s knees, to kneel. Chaith sé é féin ar a dhá ghlúin, he threw himself on his knees (in supplication). Tháinig sé anuas ar a dhá ghlúin ag achainí orm, he appealed to me on bended knee. Do ghlúin a chur fút, to get down on one’s knee. Níor chuir sé ~ faoi le fada, he hasn’t knelt (in prayer) for a long time. Níor bhuail sé a ghlúin faoi shagart ó shin, he hasn’t knelt before a priest (in confession) since then. Leanbh a chur ar do ghlúin(e), to take a child on one’s knee(s). Bróga, bríste, glún, knee-boots, -breeches. (b) Ar a ghlúine beaga, on his hunkers. 2. Generation. (a) Ó ghlúin go ~, from generation to generation. Trí ghlúin daoine, three generations of people. An ghlúin óg, the younger generation. An ghlúin atá anois ann, a tháinig romhainn, atá ag éirí aníos, the present, preceding, rising, generation. (b) Step in descent. ~ ghaoil, degree of relationship. ~ ghinealaigh, step in pedigree. (c) (Of person(s)) An chéad ghlúin ó Art, the first descendant(s) of Art. Mise an dara ~ uaidh, I am his descendant in the second generation. Is iad an treas ~ iad, they are related in the third degree; they are second cousins. Ba é ~ oiliúna na heagna é, he was the nurturer of wisdom in his day. 3. (a) Step in series. ~ staighre, step of stairs. (b)Carp: Mec: Knee, angular timber. 4. Bean ghlúine, midwife. 5. Bot: Node.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ na láimhe, na huillinne, na glúine, na gualainne, wrist-, elbow-, knee-, shoulder-, joint.
Bhí an t-uisce ~ go glúine orm, the water was up to my knees.
~ ó ghlúin go glúin, down through the generations.
Ar a ghlúine, ar shlat a dhroma, on his knees, on the flat of his back.
~ chabhrach, ghlúine, midwife.
~ ar ghlúin bríste, bulge at trouser knee.
~ glún, knee-breeches.
~ glúine, knee-cap.
~ a dhéanamh (ar ghlúin duine), to jig ride (on s.o.’s knee).
2. ~ glúine, knee-cap.
Éirí ó do ghlúine, ó bhord, as cathaoir, to rise from one’s knees, from table, from a chair.
An ghlúin atá ag éirí aníos, the rising generation.
Do ghlúin a fheacadh, to bend one’s knee.
Níor fheac sé a ghlúin i láthair Dé, he did not bend the knee before God, kneel to pray.
Ní fheacann sé (a ghlúin) d’aon duine, he yields to no man.
~ glúine, genuflection.
Do ghlúine a fhilleadh, to bend one’s knees.
~ glúine, genu-flection.
~ ar do ghlúine, go on your knees.
3. ~ (glúine), knee-cap.
Go glúine san uisce, up to the knees in water.
~ glúine, stabbing pain in knee.
~ ghlúine, inchinne, water on the knee, on the brain.
~ den ghlúin, den bhóthar, below the knee, the road.
Do ghlúin a ~ean fút, to get down on one’s knee.
Chuaigh sé ar mhullach a dhá ghlúin, he went down on his bended knees.
Ó na glúine síos, from the knees downwards.
~ glún, knee-pad.
Bhí a ghlúine ~, his knees were exposed.
Glúin nár saolaíodh go fóill, a generation yet unborn.
Glúine ~a, knock-knees.
~faidh na tithe sin glúin eile, those houses will stand for another generation.
Tháinig mise ar an treas glúin ina dhiaidh, I was born into the third generation that came after him.
Bhí an t-uisce ag dul go glúine orm, the water was rising up to my knees.
Thit sé ar a ghlúine, he fell on his knees.
