"leanbán" meaning in Irish

See leanbán in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈl̠ʲanˠəbˠɑnˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Middle Irish lenbán. By surface analysis, leanbh + -án but with unexpected delenition of bh to b. Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|mga|lenbán}} Middle Irish lenbán, {{ref|<span class="cited-source">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">2019), “lenbán”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>}}, {{surf|ga|leanbh|-án}} By surface analysis, leanbh + -án Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|leanbáin|||||||nominative plural|leanbáin|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} leanbán m (genitive singular leanbáin, nominative plural leanbáin), {{ga-noun|m|leanbáin|leanbáin}} leanbán m (genitive singular leanbáin, nominative plural leanbáin) Forms: leanbáin [genitive, singular], leanbáin [nominative, plural], declension-1 [table-tags], no-table-tags [table-tags], leanbán [indefinite, nominative, singular], leanbáin [indefinite, nominative, plural], a leanbáin [indefinite, singular, vocative], a leanbána [indefinite, plural, vocative], leanbáin [genitive, indefinite, singular], leanbán [genitive, indefinite, plural], leanbán [dative, indefinite, singular], leanbáin [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an leanbán [definite, nominative, singular], na leanbáin [definite, nominative, plural], an leanbáin [definite, genitive, singular], na leanbán [definite, genitive, plural], leis an leanbán [dative, definite, singular], don leanbán [dative, definite, singular], leis na leanbáin [dative, definite, plural], leanbhán [alternative]
  1. little child, baby; darling Tags: masculine Synonyms: babaí, bunóc, leanbhín

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "lenbán"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish lenbán",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<span class=\"cited-source\">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2019), “lenbán”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "leanbh",
        "3": "-án"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, leanbh + -án",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish lenbán. By surface analysis, leanbh + -án but with unexpected delenition of bh to b.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "declension-1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-box-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a leanbána",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbhán",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "leanbáin",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "leanbáin",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "leanbán m (genitive singular leanbáin, nominative plural leanbáin)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "leanbáin",
        "3": "leanbáin"
      },
      "expansion": "leanbán m (genitive singular leanbáin, nominative plural leanbáin)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish terms suffixed with -án",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Children",
          "orig": "ga:Children",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "little child, baby; darling"
      ],
      "id": "en-leanbán-ga-noun-KEIEvUoD",
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "baby",
          "baby"
        ],
        [
          "darling",
          "darling"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "babaí"
        },
        {
          "word": "bunóc"
        },
        {
          "word": "leanbhín"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈl̠ʲanˠəbˠɑnˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leanbán"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "lenbán"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish lenbán",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<span class=\"cited-source\">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2019), “lenbán”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "leanbh",
        "3": "-án"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, leanbh + -án",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish lenbán. By surface analysis, leanbh + -án but with unexpected delenition of bh to b.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "declension-1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-box-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a leanbána",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don leanbán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na leanbáin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leanbhán",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "leanbáin",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "leanbáin",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "leanbán m (genitive singular leanbáin, nominative plural leanbáin)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "leanbáin",
        "3": "leanbáin"
      },
      "expansion": "leanbán m (genitive singular leanbáin, nominative plural leanbáin)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Irish first-declension nouns",
        "Irish lemmas",
        "Irish masculine nouns",
        "Irish nouns",
        "Irish terms derived from Middle Irish",
        "Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish",
        "Irish terms suffixed with -án",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "ga:Children"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "little child, baby; darling"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "baby",
          "baby"
        ],
        [
          "darling",
          "darling"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈl̠ʲanˠəbˠɑnˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "babaí"
    },
    {
      "word": "bunóc"
    },
    {
      "word": "leanbhín"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leanbán"
}

Download raw JSONL data for leanbán meaning in Irish (4.0kB)

{
  "called_from": "parser/328",
  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 8"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 8"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/328",
  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 25"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 25"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/328",
  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 21"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 21"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "leanbán"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "leanbán",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (d9fa233 and 9e92f4b). 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.