ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
An chéad ~ den mhéar, the first finger-joint.
Méara ~a, gnarled fingers.
~ do mhéar, do shúil, air, beckon to him with your finger, wink at him.
~ méire, slaite, tip of finger, of rod.
Ná leag ~ méire air, don’t lay a finger on him.
Tá sé ar bharra a mhéar aige, he has it at his finger-tips.
Méara bealaithe, greasy, sticky, fingers.
~ a bhaint as fuip, as do mhéara, to snap a whip, one’s fingers.
Do cheann, do mhéar, a bhogadh, to move one’s head, finger.
~ a chur ar chneá, ar do mhéar, to bandage a wound, one’s finger.
le do mhéar é, press it with your finger.
Ná ~ do mhéara leis, don’t burn your fingers with it.
Do mhéar a chamadh, to crook one’s finger.
ar, thar) Rud a chasadh ar eiteán, ar do mhéar, to wind sth. on a spool, round one’s finger.
Ag ~ (le), fingering lightly, fiddling (with).
5. ~ (píopa, méire), dry sucking (of pipe, of finger).
Ag ~ a mhéar, a phíopa, sucking his fingers, his pipe.
~ a bhaint as do mhéar, to crack one’s finger(-joint).
Chocáil sé an bata, a mhéar, liom, he pointed the stick, his finger, at me.
~ le do mhéar é, point it out with your finger.
Naoi g~ i slat, nine fingers to a yard.
~ briosc, faoileáin, ladhrach, brittle, bird’s-foot, five-finger, starfish.
Chomh ~ le bacach an mhála, le lúidín an phíobaire, le damh san eadra, as idle as a pedlar, as a piper’s little finger, as an ox at milking-time.
Ag ~ cíche, buidéil, oráiste, na méar, sucking a breast, a bottle, an orange, one’s fingers.
Do mhéara a dhó, to burn one’s fingers.
Dódh é, he burned his fingers.
Méar eolais, finger-post.
~ ar mhéar, ring on finger.
~ a chur ar dhuine, to put a (finger-) ring on s.o.
~ ghlaice, finger-whistle.
Ceannaithe, méara, ~, delicate features, fingers.
Ní fhliuchfadh sí a méar dom, she wouldn’t wet her finger, do a hand’s turn, for me.
~ méire, coise, finger-, foot-, print.
~ i méara, numbness in fingers.
~ ar mhéar, cut on finger.
~ i súile, i méara, tingling in eyes, in fingers.
D’~ sé idir mo mhéara, it slipped through my fingers.
~ óir (ar mhéar), a gold ring (on a finger).
~ méire, ordóige, finger-, thumb-, nail.
Bhí sé ag ~e na méar de féin, he was biting his fingers from vexation.
Scaoil sé trína ladhracha é, he let it slip through his fingers.
Ní leagfar ~ ná méar ort, no one will lay as much as a finger on you.
~ tú do mhéar air, you have put your finger on it.
Lámha ~an, butter-fingers.
Chomh ~ is atá méar orm, ribe i mo cheann, as many as I have fingers and toes, hairs on my head.
~ sé mo mhéar, he lanced my finger.
~ cneá, méire, lancing of wound, of finger.
2. Do mhéara a loscadh, to burn, scorch, one’s fingers.
Le ~ na méar, with supple fingers.