"bail" meaning in Irish

See bail in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bˠalʲ/
Etymology: From Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”); see buil (“effect, result, condition, completion”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|sga|bal|t=state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect}} Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|baile||||||||-|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} bail f (genitive singular baile), {{ga-noun|f|~e|-}} bail f (genitive singular baile) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: baile [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], bail [indefinite, nominative, singular], a bhail [indefinite, singular, vocative], baile [genitive, indefinite, singular], bail [dative, indefinite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], an bhail [definite, nominative, singular], na baile [definite, genitive, singular], leis an mbail [dative, definite, singular], don bhail [dative, definite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], bail [error-unrecognized-form], bhail [error-unrecognized-form], mbail [error-unrecognized-form], abail [alternative]
  1. prosperity Tags: feminine Synonyms: rath
    Sense id: en-bail-ga-noun-9U2TCS-u Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 26 13 13 18 30
  2. proper condition, order Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bail-ga-noun-TCEhV5YC Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 26 13 13 18 30
  3. state Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bail-ga-noun-S6aXNcpT Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 26 13 13 18 30
  4. treatment Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bail-ga-noun-YMQRsrrs Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 26 13 13 18 30
  5. validity Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bail-ga-noun-kV8Dg2ru Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 26 13 13 18 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bailchríoch (english: finishing touch), gan bhail (english: invalid, void), bailigh

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "finishing touch",
      "translation": "finishing touch",
      "word": "bailchríoch"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "invalid, void",
      "translation": "invalid, void",
      "word": "gan bhail"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "bailigh"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "sga",
        "3": "bal",
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      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”); see buil (“effect, result, condition, completion”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baile",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baile",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na baile",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bail",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhail",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbail",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abail",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "-",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "baile",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bail f (genitive singular baile)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "~e",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bail f (genitive singular baile)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 13 13 18 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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            [
              9,
              13
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          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Better enough than too much.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "proverb"
          ],
          "text": "Is fearr bail ná iomad.",
          "translation": "Better enough than too much.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prosperity"
      ],
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        [
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          "prosperity"
        ]
      ],
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          "word": "rath"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "_dis": "26 13 13 18 30",
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          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
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        "proper condition, order"
      ],
      "id": "en-bail-ga-noun-TCEhV5YC",
      "links": [
        [
          "condition",
          "condition"
        ],
        [
          "order",
          "order"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 13 13 18 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "state"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 13 13 18 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "treatment"
      ],
      "id": "en-bail-ga-noun-YMQRsrrs",
      "links": [
        [
          "treatment",
          "treatment"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 13 13 18 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "validity"
      ],
      "id": "en-bail-ga-noun-kV8Dg2ru",
      "links": [
        [
          "validity",
          "validity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bˠalʲ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bail"
}

{
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    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish feminine nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "gd-noun 2"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "finishing touch",
      "translation": "finishing touch",
      "word": "bailchríoch"
    },
    {
      "english": "invalid, void",
      "translation": "invalid, void",
      "word": "gan bhail"
    },
    {
      "word": "bailigh"
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”); see buil (“effect, result, condition, completion”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baile",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baile",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na baile",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhail",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bail",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhail",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbail",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abail",
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      ]
    }
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          "english": "Better enough than too much.",
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          "text": "Is fearr bail ná iomad.",
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        }
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        {
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "proper condition, order"
      ],
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "state"
      ],
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        [
          "state",
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        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        [
          "treatment",
          "treatment"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "validity"
      ],
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        [
          "validity",
          "validity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bˠalʲ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bail"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bail meaning in Irish (3.7kB)

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  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: bail/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "bail"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bail",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "bail"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bail",
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}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
  "path": [
    "bail"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bail",
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