ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Cuir uait an ~, stop playing like a child.
Páistí ag ~, children playing mischievously.
Ná h~ a chuid ábhaillí ar an leanbh, don’t punish the child for playing pranks.
Ná h~ a chuid ábhaillí ar an leanbh, don’t blame the child for playing pranks.
Tá sé ar a bháire baoise, he is playing the fool, play-acting.
Ag imirt ~, playing hurling.
Ag ~ (ar dhuine), playing tricks (on s.o.).
Ag caitheamh, ag imirt, ~í, bowling, playing bowls.
3. Páistí ag déanamh ~, children playing little houses.
Ag bualadh píbe, téad, playing on bagpipes, on a stringed instrument.
Ag bualadh ar an veidhlín, ar an bpíb, playing on the violin, on the bagpipes.
~ báire, match-playing, hurling.
Ag imirt cleas a m~, playing their mad pranks.
Páistí ag déanamh ~ báisín, children playing roundabout.
Ag bualadh, ag imirt, ~e, playing football.
Ag imirt caidhtí, playing quoits.
1. ~ (imeartha), (playing-)card.
Tá siad ag ~ orm, they are playing on me, kicking up a shindy.
Cá bhfuil an ~ anocht? Where is the card-playing being held to-night?
Ag ~, playing cards, gambling.
Ag ~ orm, playing tricks on me.
Ag caitheamh ~, playing leap-frog.
I leith ~ is ábhachta, by way of playing a joke.
Ag imirt cnaipí, playing (cards, etc.) for buttons.
~ imeartha, scéalaíochta, playing, story-telling, competition.
5. ~ imeartha, leadóige, playing-, tennis-, court.
~ imeartha, playing equipment; pack of playing-cards.
An ghrian ag damhsa ar an uisce, the sun(light) playing on the water.
~ oibre, imeartha, snámha, working, playing, swimming, facilities.
Tá siad i n~ a bheith ag imirt, they have just been playing.
Ag imirt ~, playing singly.
~ ar chuigeann, ar chláirseach, a turn at churning, at (playing) the harp.
Éirí as obair, as imirt, to quit work, playing.
~adh mé ag na cártaí, I was fleeced at card-playing.
Bhí sé ag ~ dó féin, he was playing the giddy goat.
Ag gleadhradh ceoil, playing (music) merrily.
~ imeartha, playing outfit.
Ag ~, giving false alarms, playing practical jokes.
Ag ~t peile, fichille, cártaí, playing football, chess, cards.
Ag súgradh is ag ~t, sporting and playing.
Ag ~t buachaillí bó, playing cowboys.
~ cluiche, the playing of, the method of playing, a game.
Páirc, culaith, imeartha, playing-field, -outfit.
~ cártaí, peile, card-, football-, playing.
Cárta imeartha, playing-card.
Clár imeartha, playing-board, -table.
Cén ~ atá agaibh air? Why are you playing pranks on him, annoying him?