PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Bhí ~ ban ina measc, there were a number of women among them.
Bean nach n-admhódh a fear féin, a woman who would not acknowledge her own husband.
An bhean is breátha a chuir a haghaidh le h~, the most beautiful woman ever born.
Tá mná ~ mná ann, there are women and (other kinds of) women.
~ mná, a useless pretty woman.
Fir agus mná agus ní áirím páistí, men and women, not to speak of children.
Bean a bhfuil ~ aici, a woman who has a dowry.
~ (mná), big strong woman.
An bhean bheag, the little woman.
An bhean sin, that woman.
An bhean is ~ leis, the woman he loves best.
Cuid an ~ bean déag, na h~ mná déag, the eleventh woman’s share.
Ar mhná áille na hÉireann, one of the most beautiful women in Ireland.
2. ~ fir, mná, big, strong, man, woman.
~ mór é, he is very fond of the women.
~ tí, teaghlaigh, the women of a household.
Bhí a ~ léi, she was accompanied by her women attendants.
~ shingil, phósta, spinster, married woman.
~ feasa, wise woman, fortune-teller.
~ siúil, travelling woman.
A bhean chóir, chléibh, my dear woman.
Dochtúir mná, woman doctor.
~ de na mná, de na cailíní, one of the women, of the girls.
~ de Dhálach, an O’Donnell woman.
~ fhear, bhan, pháistí, two men, women, children.
Bean mhaith a bhí inti, she was a good woman.
Beidh bean an tí ag súil leat, the woman of the house will be expecting you.
~ óinsí, lusty foolish woman.
3. ~ mná, gaudily-dressed woman.
Bean bhorb a cheansú, to tame a headstrong woman.
~ na mban, the foremost of women.
Bean bhreá, fine, beautiful, woman.
Bean chomh maith is a bhris arán riamh, as hospitable a woman as ever lived.
Bean dar bhuíoch Dia, a woman favoured by God.
~ fir, mná, lump of a man, of a woman.
~ mná, bold, headstrong, woman.
~ feasa, wise woman, fortune-teller.
Leigheas (na) caillí, old woman’s remedy.
~ na clúide, old woman in the chimney-corner.
~ fir, mná, big robust man, woman.
~ mná, cantankerous woman.
~ fear, bean, bliain, orlach, fifty men, women, years, inches.
Bean chaointe, keening woman (at wake, funeral).
Is í ba chaoimhe de mhná, she was the gentlest of women.
~ fir, mná, man’s, woman’s, jacket.
Cé hí an bhean eile? Who is the other woman?
Cérbh í an bhean óg? Who was the young woman?