ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Ná ~ bacach díot féin, don’t reduce yourself to beggary; don’t act like a beggar.
Bheith ar an ~, to be living on charity, reduced to beggary.
Ón déirc a d’~ sé, he rose from beggary.
Cuirfidh siad an ~ (aniar) air, they will reduce him to beggary.