"bocht" meaning in Irish

See bocht in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /bˠoxt̪ˠ/, /bˠɔxt̪ˠ/
Etymology: From Old Irish bocht (“poor”), from Proto-Celtic *boxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰogtós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to break”). Etymology templates: {{root|ga|ine-pro|*bʰeg-|id=break}}, {{inh|ga|sga|bocht||poor}} Old Irish bocht (“poor”), {{der|ga|cel-pro|*boxtos}} Proto-Celtic *boxtos, {{der|ga|ine-pro|*bʰogtós}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰogtós, {{der|ga|ine-pro|*bʰeg-|id=break|t=to break}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to break”) Head templates: {{head|ga|adjective|genitive singular masculine|boicht|genitive singular feminine|boichte||{{{gsf2}}}|plural|bochta||{{{pl2}}}|comparative|boichte|||altform=|head=}} bocht (genitive singular masculine boicht, genitive singular feminine boichte, plural bochta, comparative boichte), {{ga-adj|comp=boichte|gsf=boichte|gsm=boicht|pl=~a}} bocht (genitive singular masculine boicht, genitive singular feminine boichte, plural bochta, comparative boichte) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: boicht [genitive, masculine, singular], boichte [feminine, genitive, singular], bochta [plural], boichte [comparative], no-table-tags [table-tags], bocht [masculine, nominative, singular], bhocht [feminine, nominative, singular], bochta [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, plural], bhochta [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, plural], bhoicht [masculine, singular, vocative], bhocht [feminine, singular, vocative], bochta [error-unrecognized-form, plural, vocative], bhoicht [genitive, masculine, singular], boichte [feminine, genitive, singular], bochta [error-unrecognized-form, genitive, plural], bocht [error-unrecognized-form, genitive, plural], bocht [dative, masculine, singular], bhocht [dative, masculine, singular], bhocht [dative, feminine, singular], bhoicht [archaic, dative, feminine, singular], bochta [dative, error-unrecognized-form, plural], bhochta [dative, error-unrecognized-form, plural], níos boichte [comparative, error-unrecognized-form], is boichte [error-unrecognized-form, superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], bocht [error-unrecognized-form], bhocht [error-unrecognized-form], mbocht [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. poor (of circumstances, of quality, condition, expressing pity, sympathy, expressing dislike, contempt)
    Sense id: en-bocht-ga-adj-hG5Qs5Qd Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Irish entries with incorrect language header, Poverty Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 3 3 24 3 8 6 27 0 0 0 7 8 3 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 31 2 6 4 35 0 0 0 5 5 2 5 Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 80 3 17 Disambiguation of Poverty: 61 0 39
  2. stingy
    Sense id: en-bocht-ga-adj-1UTzfyXg
  3. (nominalized, masculine) poor person Tags: masculine, noun-from-verb
    Sense id: en-bocht-ga-adj-q4p480su
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: daibhir, dealbh Derived forms: béal bocht, bochtaineacht, teach na mbocht
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    {
      "word": "daibhir"
    },
    {
      "word": "dealbh"
    }
  ],
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}

Download raw JSONL data for bocht meaning in Irish (5.2kB)

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  "subsection": "adjective",
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  "trace": ""
}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'weak noun'",
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{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: bocht/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "bocht"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "bocht",
  "trace": ""
}

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

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
  "path": [
    "bocht"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "bocht",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-14 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.