"níochán" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Irish]

IPA: /nʲiːˈxɑːn̪ˠ/ [Munster], /ˈnʲiːxɑːnˠ/ [Connacht], /ˈnʲihaxanˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From nigh + -achán. Etymology templates: {{root|ga|ine-pro|*neygʷ-}}, {{af|ga|nigh|-achán}} nigh + -achán Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|níocháin||||||||-|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} níochán m (genitive singular níocháin), {{ga-noun|m|níocháin|-}} níochán m (genitive singular níocháin) Forms: níocháin [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], níochán [indefinite, nominative, singular], a níocháin [indefinite, singular, vocative], níocháin [genitive, indefinite, singular], níochán [dative, indefinite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], an níochán [definite, nominative, singular], an níocháin [definite, genitive, singular], leis an níochán [dative, definite, singular], don níochán [dative, definite, singular], nigheachán [alternative]
  1. (act of) washing; wash, laundry Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-níochán-ga-noun-kbtEhgT6 Categories (other): Laundry Disambiguation of Laundry: 96 2 2
  2. clothes washed or to be washed Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-níochán-ga-noun-Ggdyk39q
  3. (Cois Fharraige, Ulster) verbal noun of nigh Tags: Cois-Fharraige, Ulster, form-of, masculine, noun-from-verb Form of: nigh
    Sense id: en-níochán-ga-noun-TH2b9Zu5 Categories (other): Cois Fharraige Irish, Ulster Irish, Irish entries with incorrect language header, Irish terms suffixed with -achán, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 15 14 71 Disambiguation of Irish terms suffixed with -achán: 20 21 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 12 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 10 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: báisín níocháin, bean níocháin, bord níocháin, buidéal níocháin, gile níocháin, inneall níocháin, lá níocháin, meaisín níocháin, mitín níocháin, sóid níocháin, teach níocháin, tobán níocháin, uisce níocháin

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "báisín níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bord níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "buidéal níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "gile níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "inneall níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "lá níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "meaisín níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "mitín níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "sóid níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "teach níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tobán níocháin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "uisce níocháin"
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
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        "1": "ga",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nigh + -achán.",
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    {
      "form": "níocháin",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níochán",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an níocháin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigheachán",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "-",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
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        "3": "genitive singular",
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        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "níochán m (genitive singular níocháin)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "níocháin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "níochán m (genitive singular níocháin)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "96 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Laundry",
          "orig": "ga:Laundry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "washing; wash, laundry"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "washing",
          "washing"
        ],
        [
          "wash",
          "wash"
        ],
        [
          "laundry",
          "laundry"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "act of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(act of) washing; wash, laundry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "clothes washed or to be washed"
      ],
      "id": "en-níochán-ga-noun-Ggdyk39q",
      "links": [
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cois Fharraige Irish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ulster Irish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "_dis": "20 21 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish terms suffixed with -achán",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 12 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 10 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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              14,
              21
            ]
          ],
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            [
              22,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him.",
          "ref": "1894 March 25, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:",
          "text": "Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di a’ bpósfadh sí é.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "nigh"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "verbal noun of nigh"
      ],
      "id": "en-níochán-ga-noun-TH2b9Zu5",
      "links": [
        [
          "nigh",
          "nigh#Irish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cois Fharraige, Ulster) verbal noun of nigh"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cois-Fharraige",
        "Ulster",
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nʲiːˈxɑːn̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnʲiːxɑːnˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnʲihaxanˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "níochán"
}
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    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish first-declension nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish masculine nouns",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neygʷ-",
    "Irish terms suffixed with -achán",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ga:Laundry"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "báisín níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "bean níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "bord níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "buidéal níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "gile níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "inneall níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "lá níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "meaisín níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "mitín níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "sóid níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "teach níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "tobán níocháin"
    },
    {
      "word": "uisce níocháin"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*neygʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "nigh",
        "3": "-achán"
      },
      "expansion": "nigh + -achán",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nigh + -achán.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "níocháin",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a níocháin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níocháin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an níocháin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don níochán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigheachán",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "-",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "níocháin",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "níocháin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "níochán m (genitive singular níocháin)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "washing; wash, laundry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "washing",
          "washing"
        ],
        [
          "wash",
          "wash"
        ],
        [
          "laundry",
          "laundry"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "act of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(act of) washing; wash, laundry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "clothes washed or to be washed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Cois Fharraige Irish",
        "Irish terms with quotations",
        "Irish verbal nouns",
        "Ulster Irish"
      ],
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              14,
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              32
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          ],
          "english": "He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him.",
          "ref": "1894 March 25, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:",
          "text": "Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di a’ bpósfadh sí é.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "verbal noun of nigh"
      ],
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        [
          "nigh",
          "nigh#Irish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cois Fharraige, Ulster) verbal noun of nigh"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cois-Fharraige",
        "Ulster",
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nʲiːˈxɑːn̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnʲiːxɑːnˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnʲihaxanˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "níochán"
}

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