caidreabh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish coitreb (“fellowship, company, association”).

Noun

caidreabh m (genitive singular caidreibh, no plural)

  1. fellowship, partnership
  2. familiarity, friendship, acquaintance, intercourse
  3. vicinity
  4. discourse
  5. the embrace, the bosom
  6. commerce
  7. assemblage
  8. inclination

Derived terms

  • caidreamh tionnsgalach (“industrial relations”)
  • caidreamhach (“social”, adjective)

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “caidreabh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coitreb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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