ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Éadach ~, pepper-and-salt (coloured) cloth.
Clocha, salann, a bhrú, to pound stones, salt.
Bhain sé a chreat dó, he salted him (at cards).
Uisce, salann, a chroitheadh ar rud, to sprinkle water, salt, on sth.
~ salainn, sprinkling of salt.
Ní fiú a chuid é, he is not worth his salt.
~ scadán ghoirte, five salt herrings.
Chuimil sé salann ann, he rubbed salt into it.
Salann a chur ar bhia, to put salt on food.
Bainne, salann, fuil, a dhoirteadh, to spill milk, salt, blood.
Riasc ~, salt marsh, salting.
Deora ~e, salt, bitter, tears.
~ gainimh, salainn, a grain of sand, of salt.
~ salainn, pinch of salt.
~ goirt, saillte, salt fish.
Im leasaithe, salted butter.
~ salainn, guail, half-hundredweight of salt, of coal.
~ salainn, salt pan, salina, saline.
~ úr, ghoirt, rósta, fresh, salt, roast, pork.
~ salainn, pinch of salt.
1. Feoil, iasc, a shailleadh, to salt meat, fish.
Feoil, iasc, a chur ar ~, to salt, preserve, meat, fish.
~ a chur ar bhia, to sprinkle salt on food.
~ a chur ar scéal, to salt a story.
Cuir ~ ar a eireaball! Drop a pinch of salt on its tail!
Ní fiú ~ lena chuid é, he is not worth his salt.
2. ~ mianra, mineral salts.
~ líomóide, salts of lemon.
~ miotalach, metallic salt.
3. ~ caoch, salted milk or water used as potato-dip.
~ thart an salann, pass round the salt.
Níor shlog mé gan chogaint é, I took it with a pinch of salt.
~ salainn, salt sprinkler.