"colgach" meaning in Irish

See colgach in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈkolˠəɡəx/ [Connacht]
Etymology: From colg + -ach. Etymology templates: {{af|ga|colg|-ach|pos=adjective}} colg + -ach Head templates: {{head|ga|adjective|genitive singular masculine|colgaigh|genitive singular feminine|colgaí||{{{gsf2}}}|plural|colgacha||{{{pl2}}}|comparative|colgaí|||head=|var=}} colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí), {{ga-adj|comp=colgaí|gsf=colgaí|gsm=colgaigh|pl=~a}} colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: colgaigh [genitive, masculine, singular], colgaí [feminine, genitive, singular], colgacha [plural], colgaí [comparative], no-table-tags [table-tags], colgach [masculine, nominative, singular], cholgach [feminine, nominative, singular], colgacha [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, plural], cholgacha [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, plural], cholgaigh [masculine, singular, vocative], cholgach [feminine, singular, vocative], colgacha [error-unrecognized-form, plural, vocative], cholgaigh [genitive, masculine, singular], colgaí [feminine, genitive, singular], colgacha [error-unrecognized-form, genitive, plural], colgach [error-unrecognized-form, genitive, plural], colgach [dative, masculine, singular], cholgach [dative, masculine, singular], cholgach [dative, feminine, singular], cholgaigh [archaic, dative, feminine, singular], colgacha [dative, error-unrecognized-form, plural], cholgacha [dative, error-unrecognized-form, plural], níos colgaí [comparative, error-unrecognized-form], is colgaí [error-unrecognized-form, superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], colgach [error-unrecognized-form], cholgach [lenition], gcolgach [eclipsis], cealgach [alternative], cealgánta [alternative], coilgeach [alternative], colgánta [alternative], colgdha [alternative]
  1. bristling (reacting with anger or indignation)
    Sense id: en-colgach-ga-adj-CUl6OJTN Categories (other): Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach Disambiguation of Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach: 18 23 15 8 8 27
  2. prickly (covered with sharp points), awny (having awns; bearded, bristly)
    Sense id: en-colgach-ga-adj-a1NVKkKy Categories (other): Irish terms with collocations, Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach Disambiguation of Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach: 18 23 15 8 8 27
  3. prickly (easily irritated), irascible, irritable, peppery, ratty (annoyed), waspish
    Sense id: en-colgach-ga-adj-kaPajjjt Categories (other): Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach Disambiguation of Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach: 18 23 15 8 8 27
  4. sharp (acrimonious), truculent
    Sense id: en-colgach-ga-adj-GEiKk2HH
  5. bitterly cold
    Sense id: en-colgach-ga-adj-i5MFxCPP
  6. angry (dark and stormy, menacing)
    Sense id: en-colgach-ga-adj-HlCkJbR3 Categories (other): Irish terms with collocations, Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach, Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach: 18 23 15 8 8 27 Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 16 22 14 1 1 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 19 5 0 0 59 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 17 11 0 0 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cearc cholgach (english: shuttlecock)

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "shuttlecock",
      "translation": "shuttlecock",
      "word": "cearc cholgach"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "colg",
      "colg#Irish"
    ],
    [
      "-ach",
      "-ach#Irish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "colg",
        "3": "-ach",
        "pos": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "colg + -ach",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From colg + -ach.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colgaigh",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgaí",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgaí",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgaigh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgaigh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgaigh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níos colgaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "is colgaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gcolgach",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cealgach",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cealgánta",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coilgeach",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgánta",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgdha",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "colgacha",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "13": "comparative",
        "14": "colgaí",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "adjective",
        "3": "genitive singular masculine",
        "4": "colgaigh",
        "5": "genitive singular feminine",
        "6": "colgaí",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{gsf2}}}",
        "9": "plural",
        "head": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "comp": "colgaí",
        "gsf": "colgaí",
        "gsm": "colgaigh",
        "pl": "~a"
      },
      "expansion": "colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí)",
      "name": "ga-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 23 15 8 8 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bristling (reacting with anger or indignation)"
      ],
      "id": "en-colgach-ga-adj-CUl6OJTN",
      "links": [
        [
          "bristling",
          "bristling"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish terms with collocations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 23 15 8 8 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "bearded flax",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "líon colgach",
          "translation": "bearded flax",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prickly (covered with sharp points), awny (having awns; bearded, bristly)"
      ],
      "id": "en-colgach-ga-adj-a1NVKkKy",
      "links": [
        [
          "prickly",
          "prickly"
        ],
        [
          "awny",
          "awny"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 23 15 8 8 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prickly (easily irritated), irascible, irritable, peppery, ratty (annoyed), waspish"
      ],
      "id": "en-colgach-ga-adj-kaPajjjt",
      "links": [
        [
          "irascible",
          "irascible"
        ],
        [
          "irritable",
          "irritable"
        ],
        [
          "peppery",
          "peppery"
        ],
        [
          "ratty",
          "ratty"
        ],
        [
          "waspish",
          "waspish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sharp (acrimonious), truculent"
      ],
      "id": "en-colgach-ga-adj-GEiKk2HH",
      "links": [
        [
          "sharp",
          "sharp#English:_offensive,_critical,_or_acrimonious"
        ],
        [
          "truculent",
          "truculent"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bitterly cold"
      ],
      "id": "en-colgach-ga-adj-i5MFxCPP",
      "links": [
        [
          "bitterly",
          "bitterly"
        ],
        [
          "cold",
          "cold"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish terms with collocations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 23 15 8 8 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 22 14 1 1 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 19 5 0 0 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 17 11 0 0 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "angry sky",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "spéir cholgach",
          "translation": "angry sky",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "angry (dark and stormy, menacing)"
      ],
      "id": "en-colgach-ga-adj-HlCkJbR3",
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkolˠəɡəx/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colgach"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Irish adjectives",
    "Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach",
    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "shuttlecock",
      "translation": "shuttlecock",
      "word": "cearc cholgach"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "colg",
      "colg#Irish"
    ],
    [
      "-ach",
      "-ach#Irish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "colg",
        "3": "-ach",
        "pos": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "colg + -ach",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From colg + -ach.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colgaigh",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgaí",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgaí",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgaigh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgaigh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgaigh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níos colgaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "is colgaí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgach",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cholgach",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gcolgach",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cealgach",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cealgánta",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coilgeach",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgánta",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colgdha",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "colgacha",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "13": "comparative",
        "14": "colgaí",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "adjective",
        "3": "genitive singular masculine",
        "4": "colgaigh",
        "5": "genitive singular feminine",
        "6": "colgaí",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{gsf2}}}",
        "9": "plural",
        "head": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "comp": "colgaí",
        "gsf": "colgaí",
        "gsm": "colgaigh",
        "pl": "~a"
      },
      "expansion": "colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí)",
      "name": "ga-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bristling (reacting with anger or indignation)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bristling",
          "bristling"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "bearded flax",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "líon colgach",
          "translation": "bearded flax",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prickly (covered with sharp points), awny (having awns; bearded, bristly)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prickly",
          "prickly"
        ],
        [
          "awny",
          "awny"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "prickly (easily irritated), irascible, irritable, peppery, ratty (annoyed), waspish"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "irascible",
          "irascible"
        ],
        [
          "irritable",
          "irritable"
        ],
        [
          "peppery",
          "peppery"
        ],
        [
          "ratty",
          "ratty"
        ],
        [
          "waspish",
          "waspish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sharp (acrimonious), truculent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sharp",
          "sharp#English:_offensive,_critical,_or_acrimonious"
        ],
        [
          "truculent",
          "truculent"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bitterly cold"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bitterly",
          "bitterly"
        ],
        [
          "cold",
          "cold"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "angry sky",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "spéir cholgach",
          "translation": "angry sky",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "angry (dark and stormy, menacing)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkolˠəɡəx/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colgach"
}

Download raw JSONL data for colgach meaning in Irish (5.4kB)

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

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

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

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