"bosca" meaning in Irish

See bosca in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈbˠɔsˠkə/, /ˈbˠʊsˠkə/ [Aran], /ˈbˠɞsˠkə/ [Aran]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. Etymology templates: {{bor|ga|enm|box|id=jar|t=container, box, cup}} Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), {{der|ga|ang|box}} Old English box, {{der|ga|gmw-pro|*buhsā}} Proto-West Germanic *buhsā Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|bosca|||||||nominative plural|boscaí|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí), {{ga-noun|m|~|~í}} bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: bosca [genitive, singular], boscaí [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [indefinite], bosca [indefinite, singular], boscaí [indefinite, plural], vocative [indefinite], a bhosca [indefinite, singular], a bhoscaí [indefinite, plural], genitive [indefinite], dative [indefinite], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [definite], an bosca [definite, singular], na boscaí [definite, plural], genitive [definite], an bhosca [definite, singular], na mboscaí [definite, plural], dative [definite], leis an mbosca [definite, singular], don bhosca [definite, singular], leis na boscaí [definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], bosca [error-unrecognized-form], bhosca [error-unrecognized-form], mbosca [error-unrecognized-form], bocsa [alternative], bosga [alternative]
  1. box (container) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-bosca-ga-noun-DgctKZ-x
  2. box (tree or shrub of the genus Buxus), boxwood Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Containers Categories (lifeform): Myrtle family plants, Trees, Woods
    Sense id: en-bosca-ga-noun-FZw0qLkd Disambiguation of Containers: 36 64 Disambiguation of Myrtle family plants: 4 96 Disambiguation of Trees: 6 94 Disambiguation of Woods: 6 94 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bosca abhlainne, bosca acastóra, bosca airgid, bosca ceoil, bosca cipíní, bosca compáis, bosca éistigh, bosca faoistine, bosca guail, bosca litreacha, bosca luatha, bosca muinchille, bosca poist, bosca ríomhphoist, bosca seod, bosca snaoise, bosca stuála, ceolbhosca, crann bosca, fál bosca, giocsaí i mbosca, taebhosca

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca abhlainne"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca acastóra"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca airgid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca ceoil"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca cipíní"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca compáis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca éistigh"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca faoistine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca guail"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca litreacha"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca luatha"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca muinchille"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca poist"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca ríomhphoist"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca seod"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca snaoise"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bosca stuála"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ceolbhosca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "crann bosca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fál bosca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "giocsaí i mbosca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "taebhosca"
    }
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        "id": "jar",
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      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
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        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "box"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosca",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boscaí",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vocative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhoscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na boscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mboscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na boscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosca",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhosca",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbosca",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bocsa",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosga",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "boscaí",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "bosca",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)",
      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "~",
        "3": "~í"
      },
      "expansion": "bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)",
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    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "box (container)"
      ],
      "id": "en-bosca-ga-noun-DgctKZ-x",
      "links": [
        [
          "box",
          "box"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 98",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 64",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Containers",
          "orig": "ga:Containers",
          "parents": [
            "Tools",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Myrtle family plants",
          "orig": "ga:Myrtle family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Myrtales order plants",
            "Shrubs",
            "Trees",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Trees",
          "orig": "ga:Trees",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Woods",
          "orig": "ga:Woods",
          "parents": [
            "Natural materials",
            "Trees",
            "Materials",
            "Nature",
            "Plants",
            "Manufacturing",
            "All topics",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human activity",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "box (tree or shrub of the genus Buxus), boxwood"
      ],
      "id": "en-bosca-ga-noun-FZw0qLkd",
      "links": [
        [
          "Buxus",
          "Buxus#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "boxwood",
          "boxwood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɔsˠkə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠʊsˠkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Aran"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɞsˠkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Aran"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bosca"
}
{
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    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish fourth-declension nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish masculine nouns",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish terms borrowed from Middle English",
    "Irish terms derived from Middle English",
    "Irish terms derived from Old English",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ga:Containers",
    "ga:Myrtle family plants",
    "ga:Trees",
    "ga:Woods"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bosca abhlainne"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca acastóra"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca airgid"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca ceoil"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca cipíní"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca compáis"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca éistigh"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca faoistine"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca guail"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca litreacha"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca luatha"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca muinchille"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca poist"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca ríomhphoist"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca seod"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca snaoise"
    },
    {
      "word": "bosca stuála"
    },
    {
      "word": "ceolbhosca"
    },
    {
      "word": "crann bosca"
    },
    {
      "word": "fál bosca"
    },
    {
      "word": "giocsaí i mbosca"
    },
    {
      "word": "taebhosca"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "box",
        "id": "jar",
        "t": "container, box, cup"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English box (“container, box, cup”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "box"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English box",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
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        "1": "ga",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *buhsā",
      "name": "der"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosca",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boscaí",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vocative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhoscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nominative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na boscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genitive",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mboscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dative",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhosca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na boscaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosca",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhosca",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbosca",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bocsa",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosga",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "boscaí",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "bosca",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "~",
        "3": "~í"
      },
      "expansion": "bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)",
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    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "box (container)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "box",
          "box"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "box (tree or shrub of the genus Buxus), boxwood"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Buxus",
          "Buxus#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "boxwood",
          "boxwood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɔsˠkə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠʊsˠkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Aran"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɞsˠkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Aran"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bosca"
}

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